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Articles about Jon Husted
Eight Republicans Are Campaigning on a $50 Billion Rural Health Fund. It Comes From the Same Law That Cuts $137 Billion From Rural Medicaid.
Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.
Men Punched a Woman Protesting Over the Epstein Files at a Trump Rally for Jon Husted. Husted Said There Are 'Consequences' for Interrupting.
Five weeks after calling an attack on Amy Acton something that 'must never be tolerated,' Jon Husted answered a beating at a Trump rally held for him by talking about the 'consequences' of interrupting — and admitted he hadn't watched the video.
A Russian-Born Ballroom Donor Got a Fast Pass Around Russia Sanctions and a $201 Million Federal Fund. His Money Also Went to Ten Republicans on This Site.
Konstantin Sokolov gave to Trump's White House ballroom days before his company asked Treasury for a license to get around Russia sanctions. He got it in 10 weeks, used it to buy a copper mine from a sanctioned Russian bank, and was put in charge of $201 million in State Department money. FEC records show he also gave to committees raising money for Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, Dan Sullivan, Vivek Ramaswamy and six more Republicans on this site.
Four Republican Senate Candidates Wouldn't Say How They'd Stop Social Security's 22% Benefit Cut. Ashley Hinson Brought Up Millennials' Savings Habits.
States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.
Jon Husted Said His Role in Ohio's $61 Million Bribery Bill Was 'None.' FirstEnergy Said He Was 'Fighting to the End' — and His Calendar for Signing Day Is Blacked Out.
Asked his role in passing House Bill 6, the FirstEnergy bailout at the center of Ohio's largest bribery scandal, Jon Husted said 'None.' FirstEnergy's own texts say otherwise, and every meeting on his official calendar the day it became law is redacted.
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.
Republicans Tied a Weak Stock Trading Ban to a Voter ID Law. It Failed. One Republican Says That Was the Plan.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
Nine Americans Were Killed in the West Bank. These Republican Senators Voted Not to Even Ask What Happened.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
13 Senate Republicans Voted to Keep a Trump Rule That HHS Says Will Cost Up to 2 Million People Their Health Insurance
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
Jon Husted Took Gifts From JobsOhio Three Years in a Row as Lieutenant Governor. He Won't Say What They Were.
Husted's own ethics filings show JobsOhio gave him gifts in 2021, 2022 and 2023 while he was Ohio's lieutenant governor. By 2023 the group's board chairman was a paid Intel lobbyist working Husted's office. Neither Husted nor JobsOhio will say what the gifts were or what they were worth.
The House Voted to End Trump's Iran War. On September 24, 14 Republican Senators We Track Killed It by One Vote.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
Jon Husted, Andy Biggs and Mike Johnson Now Say Trump's Iran War Should End. Together They Voted 25 Times Not to End It.
Sen. Jon Husted wants the war over 'as quickly as possible.' Rep. Andy Biggs says he doesn't 'support the war, per se.' Speaker Mike Johnson says it's time to 'bring that to a resolution.' Every time Congress voted on ending it, all three voted no.
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Jon Husted is lying to Ohio about your electric bill #maga #ohio #ai #datacenter #affordability
Jon Husted claims Sherrod Brown "voted to close down 23 power plants" and turned Ohio into an energy importer.
14 Republicans Are Running Away From Trump Six Weeks Before the Election. Twelve of Them Voted for His Budget Bill.
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.
Jon Husted Blames Your Electric Bill on Coal Plants Sherrod Brown 'Voted to Close.' Brown Never Voted to Close Any of Them.
Husted told an energy summit that Brown 'voted to close down 23 power plants' and turned Ohio from an electricity exporter into an importer. Cleveland.com checked: Congress doesn't vote to close plants, and Ohio has imported power in 63 of the last 65 years.
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.
Trump's EPA Is Scrapping the Limits on Carbon Pollution From Power Plants. 17 Republicans on Our Report Cards Pushed for It.
Biden's EPA estimated the power plant carbon rules would prevent up to 1,200 early deaths and 360,000 cases of asthma symptoms in 2035 alone. On September 14, Lee Zeldin announced they're gone. Fifteen Republicans we track cheered the repeal in the EPA's own press release; four signed a letter asking the EPA to hurry up.
Jon Husted Called His Paid Seat on a State-Regulated Bank's Board 'a Great Educational Experience.' The Bank Gave His Political Committee $492,000.
While he was Ohio's lieutenant governor, Husted took a paid seat on the board of a bank his own administration regulated. Heartland Bank then gave his political committee $492,000 — and kept giving after he moved to the U.S. Senate.
Jon Husted Ran Ohio's Job Training Office and Said Robots Taking People's Jobs Is 'Not a Bad Thing.' Now He's in the Senate Pushing AI and Robotics.
In 2021, as director of Ohio's Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation, Husted told a county chamber of commerce that repetitive jobs 'are going away' and would 'be replaced by robots.' He said he didn't think that was bad, because those jobs weren't 'enriching.'
Jon Husted Made a Man With an SS Photo as His Profile Picture His Political Director. A Reporter Found It, Not His Campaign.
Stephen Woytek ran political operations for Husted's Senate campaign for about a month. His Facebook profile picture showed soldiers from Hitler's personal SS division. It is the second person Husted's campaign has lost in two months over something a reporter found first.
Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Spending $5.1 Million on the Midterms, Almost All of It in Races With 18 Republicans on This Site. It Spent $3.7 Million of That Attacking Democrats.
America PAC has reported $5.1 million in independent spending this cycle. Eighteen Republicans with report cards on this site are the main beneficiaries — and nearly three-quarters of the money went to attack ads, not to making a case for them.
Jon Husted Says He May Strip States of Their Federal Highway Money Over Immigrant Driver's Licenses. Investigators Have Not Said Immigration Caused the Crash He Is Citing.
An Ohio man died when a driver ran a stop sign. The state patrol's released materials do not tie the crash to the driver's immigration status or his Connecticut license. Husted wants to punish 19 states over it, and this is the second time his campaign has built an immigration attack on a fatal crash.
Fifty Republican Senators Voted Against Even Debating an End to the Boat Strikes. A Year Into the Campaign, 227 People Are Dead in a "Year of Murders".
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
Trump Told Towns That Don't Want a Data Center They Want to Be 'Backwards and Poor.' He Signed the Order Giving Data Centers Federal Land, Fast-Tracked Permits and Taxpayer Loan Guarantees.
On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.
Twelve Republicans We Track Told Voters High Prices Aren't Really a Problem. One Said to Pick a Different Protein.
A NOTUS column collected what Republican candidates have been saying about the cost of living. Twelve of them have report cards on this site. Their answers range from 'earn more' to 'the Democrats invented this term affordability.'
Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
Jon Husted Pushed Washington to Put Billions Into Intel. His Wife Owned Intel Stock the Whole Time.
Financial disclosures show Husted's wife held as much as $15,000 in Intel stock while he worked to revive the company's stalled Ohio plant and learned in advance about three developments that each sent the share price up. Intel's lobbyist had given his state committee tens of thousands.
An Ad for Jon Husted Used a Dead Ohio Family's Photo to Warn About 'Dangerous Illegals.' The Driver Charged in the Crash Is a U.S. Citizen.
The NRSC ad boosting Husted showed crash footage and a family friend's photo of Lynnea, Luke and 1-year-old Logan Soposki without the family's consent. FactCheck.org found no tie between the crash and Sherrod Brown's votes.
Jon Husted Told Fox News That Sherrod Brown Backed 'Social Security Payments for Illegals.' PolitiFact Rated It False.
Husted's campaign pointed to three of Brown's Senate votes. None of them would have given a single federal benefit to anyone in the country illegally — and three months after the Social Security vote, Brown voted Husted's way on the question Husted was describing.
Jon Husted Voted Three Times to Keep the Tariffs Squeezing Ohio Farmers. Now Trump Is Dropping the Tariff on Imported Ground Beef.
Ohio farmers are paying more for fertilizer, steel and machinery because of the tariffs, and China stopped buying their soybeans entirely. Husted voted three times to keep the tariffs. Then the president waived the one on imported ground beef.
Jon Husted Told Disabled Ohioans His Medicaid Vote Wouldn't Hurt Them. He Skipped Their Forum and Went Shooting Clay Targets.
Husted was one of 14 statewide candidates invited to answer pre-written questions from Ohio's disability community on Aug. 20. He didn't show. At 8:19 that night he posted photos from a shooting range.
Three Out of Four Americans Oppose Data Centers Near Their Homes. These Eight Republicans Spent the Year Helping the Build-Out. Five Have Since Discovered Concerns.
A year ago Americans were split on AI data centers. Now 75% oppose one in their area. These eight Republicans spent that year helping the build-out along, taking the industry's money, or both. Five have spent the last few weeks repositioning. Three are still making the industry's case.
Jon Husted Told Ohioans Their Electric Bills Are Their Own Fault. His Own Party's Memo Calls His Data Center Record an 'Anchor.'
A leaked National Republican Senatorial Committee memo warns that data centers are an 'anchor' around Husted's campaign and begs AI companies to fix their image. Ohio's data center tax break cost the state $1.57 billion last year — eleven times the projection.
8 Million Americans Have Lost Their Health Coverage. Here Are More of the Republicans Who Did It.
Roughly $900 billion cut from Medicaid, plus expired ACA subsidies, has stripped coverage from about 8 million people. These seven wrote the rules, broke written promises, or voted for the cuts and then backed bills to clean up the damage.
Jon Husted Helped Nursing Homes Dodge Abuse and Wrongful-Death Lawsuits. Then the Industry Gave Him $1 Million.
A 2002 Ohio law Husted cosponsored cut the deadline for suing a nursing home in half and barred state inspection reports from the courtroom. He has since taken more than $1 million from the industry.
Max Miller's PAC Gave $70,000 to 16 Republicans in Tight Races. Exactly One Gave It Back.
POLITICO asked all 16 whether they'd return money from a congressman accused of assaulting his ex-wife and their young child. Brad Finstad returned $5,000. Mike Lawler said no. The other 14 wouldn't say.
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.
A State Had to Sue the Federal Government to Investigate Child Sex Crimes. Three Days Later, 50 Republicans Promoted the Man It Sued.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
At 4:17 in the Morning, 50 Republican Senators Handed the Justice Department to Trump's Former Personal Lawyer
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
At 4:36 in the Morning, 52 Republican Senators Voted to Advance a New Hurdle Between You and the Ballot Box
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
Five Republicans, Seven Resolutions, One Goal: Make the Air Dirtier in 17 States
Within a day of each other, three House Republicans and a group of senators introduced seven resolutions to strip the clean-air rules that 17 states and D.C. rely on. Two Koch-funded groups were quoted cheering in the press release.
Four Republican Senate Candidates Are Being Boosted by Fake Local News Sites Run by a Dark Money Group
One Nation, the Senate GOP's dark money arm, runs at least six websites that look like local newspapers. They exist to flatter Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, Jon Husted, and Ashley Hinson — and the ads that push them never say who owns them.
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.
14 Republican Senators Just Voted to Let Your Child Care Bill Go Up
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
The Senate Has Now Voted 13 Times on Ending the Iran War. These 13 Republicans Voted No Every Time It Mattered.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Chevron Made $12.1 Billion Off the Iran War and Gave $200,000 to a Super PAC for Jon Husted. He's Voted 13 Times to Keep the War Going.
Ohio Sen. Jon Husted has voted no on all 13 Senate votes this year on resolutions to pull U.S. forces out of Iran — while oil companies making record profits off that war put $220,000 behind his reelection.
In 2006, Jon Husted Killed the Part of Ohio's Clergy Abuse Bill That Let Victims of Decades-Old Abuse Sue
As Ohio House speaker, Husted stripped the one-year window that would have let survivors of clergy sexual abuse sue after their deadline had passed. Survivors filled the Statehouse halls. He took a side door into the chamber, and they sued him for meeting behind closed doors.
Jon Husted Says He'll Protect Your Electric Bill. The Companies Raising It Are Funding His Campaign.
Husted's campaign has taken $69,750 from the tech and utility companies at the center of Ohio's data center fight — seven years after he defended Google's $43.5 million tax break.
What Ohio's Republicans in Congress Are Costing You
Ohio ranks 35th of 50 on the measures we track — and its Republicans in Congress just voted to make Medicaid, food aid, and jobs worse.
Ohio Just Lost a Bigger Share of Its Obamacare Coverage Than Any State in America. Jon Husted Helped.
Ohio saw the steepest Affordable Care Act enrollment drop in the country — 32.4%, nearly a third of enrollees gone — after Jon Husted and Ohio's senators let health subsidies expire and voted for Trump's budget bill.
52 Republican Senators Just Voted to Hand ICE Nearly $70 Billion
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
The Republicans Who Marched Us Into War With Iran
In February 2026, Trump bombed Iran without Congress's approval. These Republicans cheered it on, voted to block efforts to stop it, and left us paying the price at the pump.
Jon Husted's Top Aide Was on a Lobbying Firm's Payroll. Now the Senate Is Being Asked to Investigate.
Sen. Jon Husted's senior adviser took $22,652 from a Columbus lobbying firm while working in the senator's office. A formal ethics complaint now names Husted himself.
12 Republican Senators We Track Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
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.