The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
PolitiFact rated Byron Donalds's offshore-drilling attack on David Jolly Mostly False: the $5 million was his old firm's total billings for every client, the drilling client paid $30,000, and in Congress Jolly introduced a bill to extend Florida's drilling ban.
A Tampa Bay Times analysis found 17 of the 18 billionaires funding Florida's governor race backed Byron Donalds, for $23.3 million — and two-thirds of his $131 million came from donors who gave $10,000 or more.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
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Maria Elvira Salazar posed with giant novelty checks for a children's hospital, a university and a local road project, taking credit for tens of millions of dollars.
A federal judge and then a federal appeals court found the federal approval of Florida's state-run wetlands permitting program violated the Endangered Species Act. H.R. 9017, sponsored by Byron Donalds and cosponsored by six more Florida Republicans we track, would declare Florida in compliance and hand the rubber stamp back. Aaron Bean tried the same thing in 2025.
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
