A rule capping overdraft fees at $5 would have saved 23 million households $5 billion a year. French Hill — a former bank CEO who chairs the banking committee — personally wrote the House resolution to kill it. The bank lobby thanked him by name.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
The Trump administration refused to renew ARHOME, the program covering more than 200,000 low-income Arkansans. The reason given comes straight out of the law Sarah Sanders spent a year celebrating.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
A 1,000-mile road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky found people who can't afford toilet paper. The unemployment rate hasn't moved. The only thing that changed is the law all 23 Republicans from those states voted for.
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Rick Crawford chairs the committee that is supposed to check the intelligence behind a war. On Saturday he used that chair to ask the president for more of it — and Trump thanked him publicly within minutes.
AIPAC and its allies spent $8 million to take out a sitting Republican congressman who wouldn't fall in line. Here's how a lobby funded by a few billionaires came to own both parties' votes on war and peace.
