Byron Donalds is telling business leaders Florida is 'wide open' and 'pristine.' His own financial disclosure shows up to $390,000 in stocks of companies that profit when those data centers get built.
Florida Bulldog found that the Republican nominee for Florida governor quietly amended his House financial disclosures twice this year, adding a CrossCountry Mortgage loan, up to $500,000 in student loans and his wife's retirement fund — omissions that run back to his first report in 2020.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
PolitiFact rated Byron Donalds's offshore-drilling attack on David Jolly Mostly False: the $5 million was his old firm's total billings for every client, the drilling client paid $30,000, and in Congress Jolly introduced a bill to extend Florida's drilling ban.
A Tampa Bay Times analysis found 17 of the 18 billionaires funding Florida's governor race backed Byron Donalds, for $23.3 million — and two-thirds of his $131 million came from donors who gave $10,000 or more.
A federal judge and then a federal appeals court found the federal approval of Florida's state-run wetlands permitting program violated the Endangered Species Act. H.R. 9017, sponsored by Byron Donalds and cosponsored by six more Florida Republicans we track, would declare Florida in compliance and hand the rubber stamp back. Aaron Bean tried the same thing in 2025.
At a Daytona Beach Shores campaign event, Byron Donalds said 'we are in the middle of the solar fad.' FPL, Duke Energy Florida and Tampa Electric all plan to generate more of their power from the sun. Donalds's pitch instead: small nuclear reactors that none of them plan to build.
Byron Donalds's 'hurricane tax' ad says Jolly's homeowners insurance plan would cost $1,000 per family every year. PolitiFact found the study it relies on examined a different 2024 proposal, and the $1,000 a year was a temporary fee in one catastrophic-storm scenario — not a permanent yearly bill.
A new Health Affairs analysis finds the 2025 budget bill's limits on Medicaid payments will likely force three dozen states to cut what they pay doctors and hospitals by more than $50 billion a year, starting in 2028. Fewer providers are likely to take Medicaid patients. These 76 Republicans on our report cards, from the 15 states facing the biggest cuts, voted yes.
They're deleting Trump from their websites, calling for an end to his Iran war, and telling him his immigration crackdown went too far. Every one of them who was in Congress voted for Trump's budget bill, and every House member among them voted for $70 billion more for ICE.
For a year and a half Donalds ran as 'Trump-endorsed Byron Donalds.' This week his campaign rewrote its website, cutting at least eight Trump references from the homepage and dropping 'Enact the Trump Agenda' from the top of his issues list. His record on that agenda hasn't changed.
On April 16 a war powers resolution failed 213-214. On May 14 the next one deadlocked 212-212, and a tie fails. Either one needed exactly one Republican to switch. Only Thomas Massie, who has no page here, voted yes both times.
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
Talking Points Memo asked 28 Florida Republican officials — including the party's nominee for governor and a sitting U.S. senator — whether they would denounce Marshall Rawson, who marched at Charlottesville and whose apparent social media account posted in favor of lynching. Three answered. None denounced him.
H.R. 10377 would drop every noncitizen from the count used to hand out House seats, force a new apportionment before the 2028 election, and put a citizenship question on every future census. The Fourteenth Amendment — which Clyde's filing cites as its authority — says to count 'the whole number of persons in each State.'
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
The Homeland Security inspector general found Florida's Everglades detention camp held 79 detainees in small metal enclosures with about 18 square feet of floor space. Byron Donalds called the camp a 'blueprint for other states' — and now calls investigating it 'busy work.'
PolitiFact rated False an ad Donalds shared claiming Jolly 'wants more taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security.' Jolly says he doesn't support taxing Social Security, and a Florida governor has no power over those taxes, because Florida has no state income tax.
As a state lawmaker in 2017, Donalds filed a bill critics said would make Florida's Sunshine Law meaningless. Axios asked him whether he stands by it. He did not answer.
Days before the 25th anniversary, the Republican nominee for Florida governor told a town hall in The Villages that stopping Sharia law is the top way to prevent another September 11. The 9/11 Commission blamed al Qaeda and four categories of government failure. None of them was a religious legal code, and Sharia law has never been law in an American state.
Asked on national television how Florida replaces the Haitian health care workers losing their legal status, the Republican nominee for governor answered with a high school internship program and a promise to supercharge adult education — with no number, no timeline and no cost for either. Nurses and their union say the state is losing trained caregivers it cannot get back.
H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
Donalds said the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Florida Voting Rights Act would make Florida count ballots for a month like California. The bill leaves Florida's Election Day ballot deadline exactly where it is.
On Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan told Byron Donalds nearly all of Florida is below the vaccination rate needed for herd immunity and asked if his message to parents was to vaccinate. He answered 'No' and said the outbreaks are caused by 'rampant illegal immigration.' Florida had 141 measles cases by late July.
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
On Meet the Press NOW, Donalds was asked about Trump's day-one promise to bring prices down. He said the promise stands — then said of $4 gas, 'Do I want to see $4 gas? No, I do not,' before explaining why Americans should pay it.
PolitiFact rated the Friends of Byron Donalds PAC ad False. The clip was edited to make David Jolly appear to endorse surgery for children, when he was retelling a grandfather's story about a suicidal trans teenager. Donalds' spokesperson stood by it.
Wisconsin's Act 10 is back before the state Supreme Court, 15 years after it stripped bargaining rights from most public workers. The man who ran it through the Senate is now in Congress — and he has plenty of company.
Campaigning before Florida's GOP primary, Donalds attacked his likely opponent over transgender kids and claimed America's largest doctors' group had come around to his position. The American Medical Association says it still believes families and doctors should decide together.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
Donalds promised to throw local officials out of office over 'sanctuary' policies and suspend prosecutors who 'go rogue.' Florida's own attorneys have told a court that cities aren't required to sign ICE agreements.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
The state's own economists put a number on what Amendment 3 would take from Florida's cities and counties. Donalds, the amendment's loudest champion, is now attacking the estimators — without offering a number of his own.
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
PolitiFact rated Donalds' claim about Florida's new data center law Half True: it directs a process, not a result, and it doesn't cover rural co-ops or municipal utilities at all. Meanwhile the backers of four Florida data center projects have given him $894,000.
Amendment 3 would pull as much as $12 billion a year out of Florida's cities and counties. Renters get nothing. A sheriff who endorsed Donalds calls it a 'train wreck.' Donalds' campaign has spent at least $10 million on ads promising to cut property taxes.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Federal immigration agents have killed American citizens in the street. These Republicans took the money, wrote the checks, told agents to shoot back, and refused to say a word against it.
Citadel's Ken Griffin gave $10 million to a PAC backing Byron Donalds for Florida governor — the biggest contribution Donalds has received, and the latest in a long run of Griffin buying Florida politics.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
Florida gubernatorial frontrunner Byron Donalds is one of 60 Republicans co-sponsoring HR 6213, which would block the first-ever federal rule protecting workers from deadly heat.
A federal court twice dismissed a lawsuit — joined by Florida governor candidate Byron Donalds — to overturn the 2020 Census count, calling further arguments futile.
A watchdog says the Florida governor front-runner failed to disclose up to $1.6 million in stock trades — after he went on TV demanding other members of Congress be punished for the exact same thing.
A Collier County school board member is suing Byron Donalds, saying he berated her and threatened to 'crush' or 'finish' her during a 2022 grocery store confrontation.
The House passed the 'Reliable Power Act,' handing federal energy regulators the power to stall EPA rules on power-plant pollution. Here's every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
The House passed the biggest housing affordability bill in decades, 358 to 32. Six Florida Republicans voted no — not because of housing, but to back Trump's demand for a voter suppression law.
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.
