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Articles about Carlos Gimenez
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Carlos Gimenez voted twice to gut Medicaid and SNAP #maga #florida #medicaid
Florida Congressman Carlos Gimenez voted twice for Donald Trump's budget bill that slashes nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP food assistance.
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Carlos Gimenez let 3,000 constituents be evicted, then funded the developer #maga #florida
Carlos Gimenez never said a single public word to defend the 3,000 working-class South Floridians evicted from their homes so a wealthy developer could build expensive new apartments.
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Carlos Gimenez voted to take food from hungry kids #maga #florida #carlosgimenez
Carlos Gimenez backed massive cuts to food assistance that kicked more than 5.6 million Americans, including over a million children, off SNAP in a single year.
15 Republicans Have Spent a Combined 118 Years in Congress and Introduced 993 Bills. Not One Became Law.
Jim Jordan has been in Congress since 2007 and every one of his 30 bills died in committee. Chuck Fleischmann's Cherokee land bill has passed the House five times and never once cleared the Senate. They are two of 15 Republicans on this site who have never had a bill they sponsored become law.
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Carlos Gimenez shrugged off our soldiers dying in Iran #maga #florida #iran
Carlos Gimenez has championed the Iran war from the safety of Washington and has never served a day in uniform.
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Carlos Gimenez presentó 50 proyectos de ley y ninguno se convirtió en ley #maga #florida
Carlos Gimenez está en el Congreso desde 2021 y ha presentado 50 proyectos de ley.
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Carlos Gimenez has introduced 50 bills and not one became law #maga #florida #congress
Carlos Gimenez has been in Congress since 2021 and has introduced 50 bills.
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Carlos Gimenez took $400,000 in public money in one year #maga #florida #corruption
Carlos Gimenez has spent 50 years getting rich off the taxpayer's dime.
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Carlos Gimenez rewarded the builder whose bridge collapse killed six #maga #florida #miami
Carlos Gimenez's administration, while he was Miami-Dade mayor, quietly extended a $130 million airport contract for MCM just months after the company's pedestrian bridge collapsed in Miami and killed six people.
Carlos Gimenez Voted Twice for Trump's Medicaid and SNAP Cuts. Three Months Later He Signed a Letter Saying Republicans 'Will Not Take Healthcare Away From Families Who Depend on It.'
Gimenez voted yes in May and again in July 2025 on the budget bill that cuts close to $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP. Since then Florida's SNAP rolls have fallen fastest in Monroe County, which is in his district, and on October 1 refugees and asylees started losing Medicaid. The biggest cuts are still to come.
Carlos Gimenez's Administration Extended an Airport Contract for the Company Whose Bridge Collapse Killed Six. His Wife's Cousins Run It.
MCM built the FIU pedestrian bridge that fell onto traffic in March 2018. The firm is run by cousins of Gimenez's wife, and both of his sons have worked for it. In early 2019, months after OSHA cited MCM and as the firm went bankrupt, Mayor Gimenez's administration extended MCM's $130 million contract at Miami International Airport.
Carlos Gimenez Collected $225,653 From Two Government Pensions Last Year. That Was on Top of His $174,000 Salary in Congress.
His own financial disclosure shows a $145,902 Miami fire pension and a $79,751 Florida state pension. His wife draws a third. In January he qualified for a fourth, from Congress. As Miami-Dade mayor, he proposed cutting fire trucks while drawing the fire pension, and got commissioners to approve his own 67% raise, which grew his pension.
Carlos Gimenez Has Introduced 50 Bills Since 2021. Not One Became Law — and the Only One to Reach Trump's Desk, Trump Vetoed.
Gimenez's bill to protect a Miccosukee village in the Everglades from flooding passed both chambers without a single objection. Trump vetoed it to punish the tribe for suing over Alligator Alcatraz, and 188 House Republicans voted to keep it dead. It was the closest Gimenez has come to writing a law.
Republicans Cut Medicaid by Nearly $1 Trillion. They Scheduled the Pain for After You Vote.
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.
Trump's Budget Bill Will Likely Force States to Cut Medicaid Payments to Doctors and Hospitals by More Than $50 Billion a Year. 76 Republicans We Track From the Hardest-Hit States Voted for It.
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.
Twice the House Came One Vote From Telling Trump to End the Iran War — the First Resolution Lost 213-214, the Next Deadlocked 212-212, and 181 Republicans We Track Voted No on Both.
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.
185 House Members We Track Voted to Make States Hand Your Medicaid and Food Stamp Records to Trump's Former Defense Lawyer
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.
180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.
On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.
Your Health Premiums Jumped 58%. House Republicans Came Back and Voted to Tell Colleges What They're Allowed to Boycott.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
These 188 Republicans Voted to Lock the Supreme Court at Nine Seats While Republican Appointees Hold Six of Them
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Miami-Dade Ended Universal Free Meals at All But 121 of Its 500-Plus Schools. Free Meal Funding Is Tied to SNAP Enrollment, and All Three Republicans Who Represent the County Voted for the SNAP Cuts.
Schools that feed every student for free qualify for funding tied to rates of SNAP participation. More than 5.6 million people have lost SNAP in a year — faster than the CBO predicted — and Florida's largest school district has already dropped universal free meals at all but 121 of its schools.
208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.
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.
Congress Gave ICE $70 Billion and No Rules on Conduct. Now ICE Is Buying Electric Shock Gloves.
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.
Carlos Gimenez Was One of Eight Republicans Who Voted for Universal Background Checks. Then Uvalde Happened, and He Voted No on Every Gun Bill That Followed.
In March 2021 he called background checks a 'simple fix' that promotes 'safe, sensible, and responsible gun ownership.' After 19 children were killed at Robb Elementary, he voted against every gun bill the House put on the floor — including the one that became law.
3,000 of Carlos Gimenez's Constituents Were Evicted. The Developer Who Evicted Them Wrote His Committee a $150,000 Check.
Six weeks after the Li'l Abner developer gave the Gimenez Victory Committee $150,000, Gimenez asked Congress for $10 million for that developer's project. He got $6 million. He never said a public word about the residents.
$70 Billion for ICE Passed the House by Two Votes. Not One Republican Voted No.
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.
ICE Is Reading Your Posts. Congress Paid for It.
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.
His District Is On Fire. Pete Stauber Blamed Canada.
A $10 million grant to clear dead trees in the Superior National Forest was frozen by DOGE. Now those woods are burning — and the congressman who cheered DOGE on is pointing at Canada.
207 House Republicans Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War — And Lost
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.
Carlos Gimenez on U.S. Troops Killed in Iran: 'That's the Nature of Warfare'
As American service members died in the Iran war he supports, Rep. Carlos Gimenez shrugged on CNN: 'That's the nature of warfare; we will have some casualties.'
These 190 Republicans Voted to Let an Energy Board Block Clean-Air Rules
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.
197 Republicans Voted to Spike Your Health Insurance Premiums
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.