The 2025 budget law cut SNAP by $187 billion — about 20%, the largest cut the program has ever taken. Six of these eight Republicans voted for it. Between them they co-chaired the hunger caucus, chaired the nutrition subcommittee, told the public a food bank was on their side, and turned down $18 million meant to feed kids.
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
Pillen converted Nebraska's rehabilitation-focused Work Ethic Camp into a 300-bed ICE jail. Local Republicans learned about it from a national newscast. Now the state is adding isolation rooms at DHS's request.
59% of Nebraska voters tied the minimum wage to the cost of living in 2022. Lawmakers replaced that with a flat 1.75% and created a $13.50 teen wage that stays below today's $15 until 2065. Now the attorney general is suing Omaha and Lincoln for trying to opt out.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
Gas hit $4.06 a gallon, the highest mid-August price ever recorded. Asked about high pump prices on national TV, Nebraska's congressman called it the hand you're dealt — after voting six times to protect the tariffs raising prices, voting to keep U.S. forces in the war, and taking $48,340 from pro-Israel PACs.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
Records obtained by Nebraska Public Media show what Pillen's 5% squeeze looks like on the ground: a DeafBlind support program discontinued, museum admission raised on kids, and a proposal to make low-income seniors and disabled Nebraskans start paying property tax.
Five state Republican parties have added anti-IVF language to their platforms. In Congress, the SAFE KIDS Act would void surrogacy contracts with citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and 25 Republicans with report cards here put their names on it.
