What Texas's Republicans in Congress Are Costing You
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track — and its Republicans in Congress just voted to make Medicaid, food aid, and jobs worse.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track — and its Republicans in Congress just voted to make Medicaid, food aid, and jobs worse.
She chairs the committee that writes the clean-air rules and scores 3% from the League of Conservation Voters. She was also 'pretty comfortable' letting Elon Musk gut federal jobs — and thanked him on the Senate floor.
The Trump administration cancelled a farmer-training grant in Iowa City as 'wasteful spending' — the same district Mariannette Miller-Meeks represents while she cheers on the cuts.
DOGE's charter expired on July 4, 2026. It promised $2 trillion in savings, delivered chaos and a claimed $215 billion, and its co-founder Vivek Ramaswamy bailed early — to run for Governor of Ohio.
Two more things: constituents turned up at his town halls in Bonham and Sherman to tell him they're hurting, and he coauthored the 2013 Texas law that closed half the state's abortion clinics.
DOGE wiped out 23,500 civilian federal jobs in Virginia, and he says he believes the House will write those cuts permanently into law. He calls in-person town halls 'inefficient' — and skipped the 'empty chair' one his constituents held without him.
His top donors are Blackstone Group, Accenture, Walmart and Home Depot — and he put out a press release bragging about his vote to restore and expand ICE funding.
Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry filed amendments to wipe out funding for the Peace Corps, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and a democracy fund — more of his slash-everything approach.
Arkansas already ranks 49th of 50 states on the measures we track. Now its own members of Congress have voted to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and farm support on top of it.