In 2021 Bost said it was 'every veteran's right to have an opinion — even one I find radical.' In July 2026, one day after the VFW put a 93-year-old protest cartoon on a T-shirt, he asked the VA to scrutinize the group's accreditation.
AIPAC alone gave him about $68,000 by the end of July — his largest single donor by far. More than 100 PACs have written him checks. And the most common profession listed by his donors, after 'retired,' is blank.
A year-long Florida Bulldog investigation traced the money behind Li'l Abner III — the project that displaced about 3,000 working-class and elderly mobile home park residents in Sweetwater. Diaz-Balart certified he had "no financial interest."
Outside groups poured $5 million into Indiana's 8th District's 2024 primary — the sixth most expensive congressional race in America that spring. Messmer's own campaign raised less than a third of that. Then he took a seat writing the rules for one of his biggest backers.
In 2005 he earmarked $9.5 million around an airfield, then sold nearby land for a 79% profit. In 2024 the LA Times found $16 million in projects within miles of his rental properties — and a building he'd never disclosed. In 2026 he's running on it.
Between April 7 and April 17, 2025, one of Congress' richest members bought and sold between $3.44 million and $9.45 million in stocks — including trucking, rail and shipping companies overseen by his own committee. His office said a professional handles it.
Four staffers, $20,750 in taxpayer-funded travel over one long weekend — six times the House average, and more than any other office in the House. His spokesperson wouldn't say where they stayed.
The Florida congressman now praising DOGE for exposing government waste once collected $152,000 in public money from a community college for a 175-page double-spaced manuscript that existed in a single copy.
In May, HHS handed the surgeon general's duties to Stephanie Haridopolos — a staffer the Senate never confirmed, and the wife of Rep. Mike Haridopolos, who six months earlier voted to let Floridians' insurance premiums spike.