On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.
As a state lawmaker in 2017, Donalds filed a bill critics said would make Florida's Sunshine Law meaningless. Axios asked him whether he stands by it. He did not answer.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota were preparing to charge ICE agent Christian Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law. The case prosecutor wrote that Washington directed them to file only a false-statements charge: 'I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn't enough.' The Justice Department says it has reached no final decision. The next day, the AP and CBS reported he had been fired.
Idaho guardsmen have been policing Washington, D.C. since February under Trump's executive order. The ACLU wants them home. The Pentagon says it won't know the cost until the mission ends. And a D.C. resident has filed a $3 million claim saying Idaho guardsmen injured her.
In July his campaign site opposed funding foreign wars and promised to rein in reckless spending. Both sections are gone. His “about” page has dropped his anti-abortion line. A poll now shows the race within the margin of error in a district Trump won by 15.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
Rep. Dave Min, a birthright citizen, used his time at a House Oversight hearing on Sept. 1 to say that if he says something Gill dislikes, 'maybe he'll try to revoke my citizenship.' Gill circulated a petition last year to deport a sitting member of Congress.