This is Standard Republican Policy. Is This What You Want?
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Warming up the crowd for Trump in Park City, Tracey Mann said the Democratic Socialists of America had 'completely taken over the Democrat Party' and told Republicans to 'tie every Democrat up and down the ballot to this insanity.' The DSA has endorsed one candidate in Kansas this year, for the state House.
Roger Marshall spent the summer saying the price of gas in October would decide the midterms, and predicting it would come down. Gas in Kansas is up more than 56% since the Iran war began. Now he says 'there are things more important than money to Kansans.'
Roger Marshall's longtime business partner Dan Tasset runs Nueterra, a private equity firm whose rural hospitals collapsed and left workers unpaid. A Nueterra fund owns two farm-chemical startups his wife invests in, and Marshall wrote the bill that would exempt their products from pesticide regulation.
Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.
A Meriden metal-fabrication executive told Marshall tariffs had cut demand, squeezed margins and stalled an expansion. Marshall called him the exception and doubled down on the policy that the New York Fed says has pushed up prices on everyday goods.
Roger Marshall calls earmarks 'not American.' In 2024 he requested a $4.2 million one for a Kansas water project that runs along the creek beside Rattlesnake Ranch, which he co-owns — and he never mentioned it.
A Hutchinson bakery owner says Roger Marshall's 2020 campaign never paid a $678 bill for his primary-night watch party, despite a year of calls and emails. He paid only after her post went viral. As a doctor, The Kansas City Star found, he charged patients the highest interest rate of about 150 Kansas practices it reviewed.
Texts, calendars and video from Roger Marshall's 2020 Senate run show his office using taxpayer money and congressional staff for campaign work. Ethics experts call it 'breathtaking.'