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Crypto billionaires are pouring massive fortunes into our elections to buy off politicians.
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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.
In 2018, Bill Huizenga Warned Trump's Tariffs Could Cost West Michigan Jobs. Now He Backs Them, and Voted Against Ending the Canada Tariffs.
In 2018, Bill Huizenga called Trump's steel tariffs 'misguided' and warned they could cost West Michigan workers their jobs. In 2025 he said Trump's new tariffs were 'the right thing to do.' That year, three West Michigan employers announced about 350 job cuts.
The Crypto Industry Is Spending to Re-Elect 19 House Republicans. Every One of Them Voted for the Crypto Industry's Bill.
Fairshake, the super PAC funded mainly by Coinbase, a16z and Ripple, is backing 19 House Republicans — $1 million apiece for French Hill, Bryan Steil and Bill Huizenga, the sponsor and two cosponsors of the industry's top bill. All 19 voted for it.
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.
Bill Huizenga Is Vice Chairman of the Committee That Oversees Wall Street and Insurers. His Chief of Staff Left to Lobby for an Insurance Giant.
At least a dozen people who worked for Bill Huizenga were or became lobbyists — including his chief of staff of 11 years, now lobbying for Travelers, and two deputy chiefs of staff now lobbying for Vanguard and TransUnion. All three companies answer to the committee Huizenga helps run.
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.
Bill Huizenga Owned Individual Stocks for Seven Years While on the Committee That Oversees the Stock Market. A $1 Million Ad Campaign Now Praises Him for Voting to Ban Congressional Stock Trading.
An outside group is spending nearly $1 million telling Michigan voters that Bill Huizenga took on congressional stock trading. His own disclosures show Johnson Controls stock through his first seven years on the Financial Services Committee, a purchase reported 57 days late in 2021, and a vote against making members sell what they already own.
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.
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Bill Huizenga is making Michigan pay for dirty coal
MAGA Republican Bill Huizenga claims he wants to keep your utility bills from going through the roof.
Asked About the Coal Plant in His District, Bill Huizenga Blamed Whitmer's 'Green New Deal Cronies.' Keeping It Open Has Cost $259 Million.
The J.H. Campbell coal plant in Bill Huizenga's district was supposed to close in May 2025. Trump's Energy Department kept ordering it open, at a cost Consumers Energy puts at $259 million. Huizenga blamed Michigan Democrats.
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.
All Seven of Michigan's Republicans in Congress Voted to Keep Trump's Tariffs. That's $5,619 Per Michigan Household, More Than Any Other State.
New state-by-state numbers put Michigan's tariff bill at $23 billion — $5,619 per household, the highest in the country. In February, Michigan's seven Republicans voted first to stop the House from voting on the tariffs, then against ending them.
Bill Huizenga's Campaign Took $3,400 From the Gravel Company and Its Founders Who Wanted to Mine Land He Half Owns
Top Grade Aggregates wanted to run a 12-year gravel operation partly on land owned by Bill Huizenga's family businesses. Four months after the township approved it, the company wrote his campaign a check — and FEC records show his campaign appears to be the only one it has given to.
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.
Michigan Lost 130,000 People From Obamacare in One Year. Barrett, Huizenga and James Voted Against Bringing It Back.
ACA marketplace enrollment in Michigan fell 27% in a single year after the premium tax credits lapsed, and the Medicaid cuts haven't even started yet. All three of these congressmen voted against restoring the credits, and for the law that schedules the rest.
Twelve Members of Congress Posed for Photos With a Group That Wants to Privatize Social Security. They're Calling It an Endorsement.
The 60 Plus Association was started with Koch money in 1992. It bragged in 1997 that it was the first seniors group to back privatizing Social Security, and it has pushed to turn Medicare into vouchers. Eleven House Republicans and an independent who caucuses with them took its award anyway.
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.
Bill Huizenga Voted to Reject the Bill That Would Have Funded TSA and the Coast Guard. Four Days Later He Was Touring a Castle in Scotland.
On March 27, 2026, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to reopen most of Homeland Security. Huizenga voted to throw it out. On March 31 he turned up in a tourist photo at Edinburgh Castle. On April 30 the House gave up and passed the Senate's bill anyway — 34 days later, one day before the Coast Guard would have run out of money to pay its people.
$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.
45 Republicans We Cover Broke the Law That's Supposed to Stop Insider Trading in Congress
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.
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.
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.
Bill Huizenga's Campaign Paid His Brother $400,000 — While His Brother Sold the Congressman's Condos
A Metro Times investigation found Rep. Bill Huizenga's campaign paid a company owned by his half-brother over $400,000 — the same brother who helped run his luxury condo business.
House Republicans Spent a Hearing Asking How to Permanently Gut the Agency That Protects You From Banks
At a July hearing, House Republicans didn't push back on the gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — they asked how to make it permanent.
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.
Bill Huizenga Deleted His Own Record From His Website the Day a Poll Showed Him Losing
Within a day of a poll showing him trailing, Rep. Bill Huizenga scrubbed his campaign website — deleting his anti-abortion, national-debt, and health-care pages. He can hide the pages. He can't hide the votes.
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.