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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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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.
Chris Smith Led 128 Republicans in Asking for a Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood. They Asked Whether It 'Illegally Received $88 Million.' Nobody Has Found That.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
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.
The Republicans We Cover Keep Putting White Nationalists on the Payroll, the Stage and the Ballot. Asked About It, They Denounce Racism in General and Never Say the Name.
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.
Andrew Clyde Filed a Bill to Redraw the House Before 2028 by Not Counting Noncitizens. 38 Republicans We Cover Signed On the Same Day.
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.'
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.
16 Republicans on Our Report Cards Asked the EPA to Treat Abortion Pills as a Drinking-Water Contaminant. Scientists Say There's No Evidence. Trump's EPA Is Testing for Them Anyway.
In June, 19 Republicans in Congress signed a letter urging the EPA to add mifepristone to its list of possible water contaminants. On September 9 the EPA announced a drinking-water study that includes the two abortion drugs. Environmental health experts say there's no scientific evidence abortion medication harms the environment or people — and five days later, the EPA announced it is scrapping carbon limits on power plants.
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.
Sixty-Three House Republicans Told the Supreme Court the AR-15 Deserves Protection Because It Is a Military Weapon
Andrew Clyde led a brief filed September 4 telling the justices that a rifle's usefulness in war is a reason to protect it, not a reason to restrict it. Fifty-seven of the signers have a report card on this site.
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.
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.
One Hundred Nine Republicans We Track Signed a Bill to Impose Right-to-Work on Every State. Twenty of Them Come From States That Don't Have It.
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.
One in Every 14 Union Members in America Just Lost Their Contract by Executive Order. 195 House Republicans Voted to Keep It That Way.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
Republicans Once Voted for a 12-Year Limit on Congress. Forty-Six on This Site Are Already Past It — by 909 Years.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
Republicans Are Coming for IVF and Surrogacy. Twenty-Five of the Ones We Track Signed the Bill.
Five state Republican parties have added anti-IVF language to their platforms. In Congress, the SAFE KIDS Act would void surrogacy contracts with citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and 25 Republicans with report cards here put their names on it.
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.
$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.
Seventeen Republicans Have Tried to Rename Dulles Airport After Trump. Three Signed On While Air Traffic Controllers Were Working Without Pay.
Two bills, two years, seventeen Republicans, and zero hearings. The push to put Trump's name on Dulles International Airport picked up three new cosponsors during the longest government shutdown in American history — while the air traffic controllers working it went unpaid.
Paul Gosar Used His Taxpayer-Funded Newsletter to Say the Nation's Top General "Would Be Hung"
In September 2023 his official newsletter called Gen. Mark Milley a traitor and said that "in a better society" he would be hanged — blaming him for a Jan. 6 delay, citing testimony that never mentioned him.
Hours After 19 Children Were Murdered in Uvalde, Paul Gosar Told the Country a Lie About the Shooter
"It's a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos." He had the name wrong, the shooter was a U.S. citizen, and there was no evidence for the rest. The theory started on 4chan, and the photos being passed around included a 20-year-old woman in Georgia who spent the next days proving she was alive.
Mitch McConnell Said There's No Place in the GOP for White Supremacists. Paul Gosar Spoke at Nick Fuentes's Conference Two Years Running.
He addressed AFPAC in person in 2021 and by video in 2022 — the second time at the same event where Fuentes appeared to praise Hitler from the stage. He wrote the FBI on congressional letterhead defending Fuentes. His own digital director was traced to a Groyper account.
The House Censured Paul Gosar for a Video of Himself Killing a Colleague. An Hour Later, He Posted It Again.
Censure is one of the rarest punishments Congress hands out. Gosar got it 223–207 on November 17, 2021, stood in the well of the House while it was read aloud, refused to apologize — and re-shared the video about an hour later.
Paul Gosar Hasn't Held an In-Person Town Hall Since June 2016. He's Also Missed 541 Votes.
Ten years without an in-person town hall. Nearly three times the median rate of missed roll call votes. Declined an interview. And a district so red he doesn't have to answer any of it.
Paul Gosar Named a Bill the "Enhancing Safety for Animals Act." It Delists an Endangered Wolf.
Three Gosar bills, three titles that say the opposite of what the text does: two "Protection Acts" that abolish national monuments, and an animal-safety act that strips Endangered Species Act protection from a wolf with 319 left in the wild.
Paul Gosar's Plan to Save Social Security: Drill, Mine, Graze and Log Your Public Lands
His LASSO Act would tie Social Security's funding to how hard we extract from federal land. A conservative budget analyst checked his math and found he'd understated the shortfall by half — and that his bill covers 1.5% of it.
4 Million Americans Have Lost Food Stamps. Republicans Say That's the Economy Getting Better.
Unemployment hasn't moved. Grocery prices keep climbing. But SNAP enrollment has collapsed by 11% since Republicans passed their budget bill — and in Arizona, where all six Republicans voted yes, more than half the program was gone by April.
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.
38 Republicans Signed a One-Sentence Bill to Abolish the Department of Education
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
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.
What Arizona's Republicans in Congress Are Costing You
Arizona ranks 34th of 50 on the measures we track — and its Republicans in Congress just voted to cut health care, food, and wildfire protection on top of it.
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.