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16 Republicans on Our Report Cards Asked the EPA to Treat Abortion Pills as a Drinking-Water Contaminant. Scientists Say There's No Evidence. Trump's EPA Is Testing for Them Anyway.

16 Republicans on Our Report Cards Asked the EPA to Treat Abortion Pills as a Drinking-Water Contaminant. Scientists Say There's No Evidence. Trump's EPA Is Testing for Them Anyway.

In June, 19 Republicans in Congress signed a letter urging the EPA to add mifepristone to its list of possible water contaminants. On September 9 the EPA announced a drinking-water study that includes the two abortion drugs. Environmental health experts say there's no scientific evidence abortion medication harms the environment or people — and five days later, the EPA announced it is scrapping carbon limits on power plants.

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Juan Ciscomani Voted for the Law That Has Knocked 400,000 Arizonans Off Food Assistance.

Juan Ciscomani Voted for the Law That Has Knocked 400,000 Arizonans Off Food Assistance.

Angelica Garcia, a single mother in Tucson, was kept off SNAP for two months while Arizona rewrote the program to comply with Trump's budget bill. Ciscomani signed a letter urging House leaders to keep SNAP protected, listed it as a first-100-days accomplishment, then voted for the bill — and never mentioned food assistance in either statement he put out about it. More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost benefits since.

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Andy Biggs Wrote a Bill to Abolish Arizona's Medicaid Program. His Plan Wouldn't Even Fully Cover the Disabled: 'You Can't Even Cover Them.'

Andy Biggs Wrote a Bill to Abolish Arizona's Medicaid Program. His Plan Wouldn't Even Fully Cover the Disabled: 'You Can't Even Cover Them.'

In 2011, state Sen. Andy Biggs sponsored SB 1519 to end AHCCCS, the program covering nearly 1.4 million Arizonans. His replacement wouldn't have fully covered the roughly 100,000 people with severe mental illness and disabilities who relied on it — on purpose, he said, because covering them meant no savings. Now he wants to be governor.

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180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.

On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.

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Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Spending $5.1 Million on the Midterms, Almost All of It in Races With 18 Republicans on This Site. It Spent $3.7 Million of That Attacking Democrats.

America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.

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Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.

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