Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd endorsed Mills in 2022. A week before Mills's primary, Judd cut him loose on camera: "He's under criminal investigation. He's had House ethics complaints. He's not a good guy."
Wagner's net worth has grown by an estimated $22 million since she was sworn in. She chairs the subcommittee that oversees the SEC, she's invested in private equity — and people who work at private equity firms are among her biggest donors.
As Intelligence Committee chairman in 2013, Rogers said a secret surveillance program can't violate your privacy if you never find out. Then he spent six years on the advisory board of a phone company that was secretly tapping 1.5 million Venezuelans for Nicolás Maduro.
One donor's company paid $9 million to settle federal claims it lied to get a pandemic loan forgiven. Another pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff casino scandal and was pardoned by Trump last month.
A New York Times investigation found one of Paxton's top sources of income is a cell tower on the campus of a hospital whose board he served on. He has reported between $100,000 and $1 million from it about every 18 months.
Paxton's campaign says three-fourths of the Texas Republican delegation has endorsed him. Six of those members backed John Cornyn in the primary. Nothing about Paxton's record changed in between.
A Texas Republican admitted an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, and the Speaker said it wasn't 'time' to talk about resigning. With Max Miller accused of domestic abuse, Johnson says it's 'not my business.' He had no such trouble deciding about Democrats.
At the Faith and Freedom Coalition summit in June, the Speaker of the House told the crowd that Democrats would investigate Trump's donors and friends — and that he personally is what stands in the way. Oversight is his job. He described it as the threat.
On March 27, 2026, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to reopen most of Homeland Security. Huizenga voted to throw it out. On March 31 he turned up in a tourist photo at Edinburgh Castle. On April 30 the House gave up and passed the Senate's bill anyway — 34 days later, one day before the Coast Guard would have run out of money to pay its people.
