The fourth-ranking House Republican told POLITICO the secret to her job is honesty. In the same interview she repeated a false claim about Social Security — and a month later she told a Michigan mother there were no cuts to Medicaid, then voted for the bill that cut it.
In October 2024, a full-page ad paid for by Tom Barrett's campaign ran in a Black-owned Lansing weekly telling readers to vote on November 6 — the day after Election Day. The same ad ran with the correct date in a different Lansing paper.
In 2022, Michigan's Tom Barrett wouldn't say the 2020 election was fair. His own Republican colleagues in the Michigan Senate had already investigated it for seven months and found no fraud. He's still doing it today.
Michigan's Tim Walberg pushed the birther conspiracy, suggested impeaching Obama to force out his birth certificate, and still wouldn't accept it months after Obama released it. Nine years later, impeachment was suddenly a sacred thing Democrats were abusing.
A constituent's recording caught the Michigan congressman saying the U.S. shouldn't spend 'a dime' on humanitarian aid for starving people in Gaza. He called it a metaphor and moved on.
Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
Bergman's chief of staff took home $221,242 in taxpayer money last year and runs a political consulting firm on the side — with his pay structured so he never had to disclose it. A retired judge and a Navy chaplain want the House Ethics Committee to look into it.
James and his wife put up to $50,000 into Elon Musk's SpaceX on June 12, the day it began trading. He sits on the committee that oversees the FCC, which regulates Starlink. And he got an extension on his annual disclosure until nine days after Michigan's primary.
Standing next to Trump at the GM Proving Grounds, the Republican running for Michigan governor repeated the Big Lie in a single sentence. It's the same thing he did after losing his own race in 2020.