She ran South Carolina's Commission for the Blind and helped unwind subminimum wage for disabled workers. Two days into the Senate she voted against taking up a resolution to end a new Medicare prior-authorization program, and two weeks later against taking up one to undo a child care rollback.
Six Republicans crossed over to pass Oregon's Medicaid funding bill. Drazan wasn't one of them. Her objection wasn't to what the money does — it was to how many votes it needed.
The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill could cost Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid, and 18,000 fewer Nebraskans are getting food assistance than a year earlier.
On the same telephone town hall where Pillen used an ableist slur three times, he waved off Nebraska's $471.5 million budget hole, saying the press 'tries to say that we're broke,' said the state has 'bushel baskets' of money, and promised he won't support any candidate who won't back a six-week abortion ban.
Betty Redd-Mendez cares for her brother, son and father in Wasilla. She spent weeks arranging coverage so she could go ask her senator about the Medicaid cuts he voted for. He refused to speak with her.
Lindell's 72-page plan cuts education by $4.9 billion, healthcare by $11 billion and public assistance by $3.6 billion — then asks private donors to cover the $16.5 billion still missing, through a giving program modeled on his own 'Lindell Direct Assistance Program.'
A review of FEC filings found Iowa's Republican Senate nominee has taken more than $77,000 from pesticide manufacturers and factory-farm meat PACs — while voting to weaken clean water rules and defending atrazine to the EPA.
At the Georgia Chamber's luncheon, Jackson told counties a data center could wipe out their property taxes — while invested in one in Texas — and rejected Medicaid expansion in a state where 566,000 people are projected to lose coverage.
Paxton opened a formal investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics, claiming its vaccine advice is bought by drug companies — in the middle of the country's worst measles outbreak in 30 years.