Oct 24, 2026

Ashley Moody Sponsored a Bill to Block Lawsuits by Workers Dying of Silicosis. The Family Behind the Biggest Maker of the Stone Gave Her Victory Fund $24,000.

Florida Sen. Ashley Moody is the sponsor of a bill that would give makers of quartz countertops the kind of lawsuit shield gun makers get — while stone workers, including one in Tampa, are dying of a lung disease from cutting it. The CEO of America's largest quartz maker and his son gave her victory fund $24,000, and $14,000 of it went on to her campaign.

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Oct 23, 2026

This is Standard Republican Policy. Is This What You Want?

Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.

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Oct 23, 2026

Trump's Budget Bill Will Cost New Jersey Up to $3.7 Billion a Year in Medicaid Money. Chris Smith, Tom Kean Jr. and Jeff Van Drew Voted for It Twice.

New Jersey's health officials told lawmakers the budget bill's Medicaid changes could cost the state up to $3.7 billion a year and push up to 330,000 people off their health plans, with work requirements for 540,000 adults starting in January. All three New Jersey House Republicans voted for it.

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Oct 22, 2026

At Michael Whatley's Rally, Trump Told Camp Lejeune Families They'd Get Paid Only If Republicans Win: 'If We Don't Win, There's No Money.'

Campaigning for Michael Whatley in Greenville, Donald Trump said he'd settle the remaining claims from veterans and families poisoned by Camp Lejeune's water, but only if Republicans keep Congress. A woman who lost four relatives called it 'sickening.'

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Oct 22, 2026

Eight Republicans Are Campaigning on a $50 Billion Rural Health Fund. It Comes From the Same Law That Cuts $137 Billion From Rural Medicaid.

Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.

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Oct 22, 2026

Richard Hudson gutted Medicaid and hid the pain until after you vote #maga #northcarolina #medicaid

Richard Hudson voted to slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next ten years, and the Congressional Budget Office warns the law will leave an estimated 10 million more Americans without health insurance.

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Oct 21, 2026

Republicans' Medicaid Work Requirements Will Cost Millions Their Coverage. Deloitte and Other Contractors Get Paid to Run the Paperwork.

On January 1, the work rules in Trump's budget bill kick in. States are paying contractors with troubled records to build the systems — and in Georgia, the test case, the paperwork cost twice as much as the health care.

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Oct 20, 2026

Tennessee's Republican Government Is Forcing HIV/AIDS Programs to Check Patients' Immigration Status. Federal Law Exempts Disease Treatment From Those Checks.

Tennessee's health department is forcing every agency in the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS program to verify each patient's immigration status, under a state law Republicans toughened this year with criminal penalties for health workers. Federal law exempts the treatment of contagious diseases from these checks. One of Tennessee's largest Ryan White providers sued on Monday.

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Oct 18, 2026

NIH Says Trump's DOGE Order Wrecked Its Plan to Put a $112 Million Research Contract Up for Bids. So It Raised the Same Company's Ceiling by $20 Million, No Bidding.

The National Institutes of Health planned an open competition to replace a $112 million research contract. Its own paperwork says Trump's DOGE order caused delays and staff turnover that wrecked the plan, so it gave the same company two more years and up to $20 million more without a bid.

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