Since July 2025, ICE has refused bond hearings to anyone who entered without inspection, however long ago. On Friday the full 5th Circuit upheld that policy, reversing its own panel — a ruling that reaches more than 20,000 people held in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
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.
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Kevin Kiley quit the Republican party to run as an independent, but when a reporter asked if he was changing any of his political positions, he answered: "No."
Internal documents show the Trump administration racing to pull Federal Student Aid out of the Education Department by October 2027. The law says it has to stay there, officials know it, and they haven't asked Congress. The office has already lost 43% of its staff.
On the first day of Trump's Iran war, a U.S. missile hit a girls' school in Minab, killing many children. Bloomberg reports Pete Hegseth's advisers intend to hold the Pentagon's report on the attack until after the November midterms at the earliest.
Greg Abbott has renewed or amended his border disaster proclamation at least 69 times since 2021 — 21 of them since Trump took office and crossings hit record lows. The 'emergency' lets his agencies skip competitive bidding: more than $5 million in no-bid contracts since January 2025, for rifles, apartments and a Ford F-150.
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Nine American citizens have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022, including an elderly man dragged from his car, a journalist shot in the head, and a 20-year-old beaten to death.
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John Rutherford voted to pour tens of billions of dollars into ICE while stripping away basic oversight.
The Government Accountability Office found that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS illegally withheld more than $78 million that Congress approved last year for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — the agency whose research helped hospitals cut deadly infections. It has funded almost no new research since, and has gone from about 300 staff to about 90.
