The FDA has lost nearly 4,300 employees and USDA's meat inspection service about 900 since the start of 2025. On June 4, both Wisconsin Republicans voted for a bill cutting the agriculture and FDA budget another 1.4% — one that, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses 'to account for staffing reductions.'
Michigan's Republican Senate candidate has been pushing for war with Iran since 2006, on a nuclear weapons claim America's own spy agencies rejected again and again. Now Michiganders are paying for that war at the pump.
New state-by-state numbers put Michigan's tariff bill at $23 billion — $5,619 per household, the highest in the country. In February, Michigan's seven Republicans voted first to stop the House from voting on the tariffs, then against ending them.
A NOTUS column collected what Republican candidates have been saying about the cost of living. Twelve of them have report cards on this site. Their answers range from 'earn more' to 'the Democrats invented this term affordability.'
A new statewide survey says 37% of Arkansans don't have enough food. In the Washington Post, the governor called Trump's budget bill a win for moving welfare recipients 'off the path to dependency.'
HR 6213 would bar the Secretary of Labor from finalizing or enforcing the first federal heat standard. Kiggans signed on the day it was introduced. Federal data counts an average of 3,389 heat injuries and 34 heat deaths a year on the job — and OSHA itself calls that an undercount.
In May 2025, 215 House Republicans voted for a ten-year ban on states and towns enforcing any law that limits AI — data centers included. Four of the fourteen named here voted for it four separate times. Now they are campaigning on letting your town decide.
Cline posted about a Farm Bureau listening session on Sunday afternoon. At 3:21 p.m. the Virginia Cattlemen's Association — headquartered a ten-minute drive from his house — warned that Trump's plan to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef will hurt producers. Cline voted to strip the House of its power to vote on Trump's tariffs for the rest of that session.
Ohio farmers are paying more for fertilizer, steel and machinery because of the tariffs, and China stopped buying their soybeans entirely. Husted voted three times to keep the tariffs. Then the president waived the one on imported ground beef.