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Articles about Tom Kean Jr.
Trump's Budget Bill Will Cost New Jersey Up to $3.7 Billion a Year in Medicaid Money. Chris Smith, Tom Kean Jr. and Jeff Van Drew Voted for It Twice.
New Jersey's health officials told lawmakers the budget bill's Medicaid changes could cost the state up to $3.7 billion a year and push up to 330,000 people off their health plans, with work requirements for 540,000 adults starting in January. All three New Jersey House Republicans voted for it.
Tom Kean Jr. Cosponsored a Bill That Delays Medicare Price Cuts on Cancer Drugs. He Owns Stock in the Companies That Make Them.
Tom Kean Jr. cosponsored the ORPHAN Cures Act, which rode into Trump's budget bill and pushed back Medicare's power to negotiate prices on blockbuster cancer drugs. The Congressional Budget Office says it handed a multibillion-dollar windfall to drugmakers including Merck and Johnson & Johnson — two companies whose stock sits in Kean's own portfolio.
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.
Refugees and Trafficking Victims in New Jersey Could Start Losing Medicaid Oct. 1. Chris Smith, Tom Kean Jr. and Jeff Van Drew Voted Twice for the Law That Does It.
Up to 25,000 legal immigrants in New Jersey — refugees, trafficking victims, domestic violence survivors, family of veterans — could lose Medicaid on Oct. 1 under Trump's budget bill. All three New Jersey Republicans in the House voted for it twice, and Van Drew had signed a letter promising he wouldn't.
Tom Kean Jr. Mailed Voters a Taxpayer-Funded Promise to Ban Congressional Stock Trading. His Portfolio Kept Buying Stock After He Voted for the Ban.
This month New Jersey's 7th District got a mailer, paid for with House funds, telling them Tom Kean Jr. wants to ban members of Congress from trading stocks. His own filings show stock trades in every month of 2026 through August — including two purchases in August, weeks after he voted for a bill to stop members from buying stocks.
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.
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.
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.
Seven Republicans Are Running on 'Local Control' of Data Centers. All Seven Voted to Take It Away for Ten Years.
In May 2025, 215 House Republicans voted for a ten-year ban on states and towns enforcing any law that limits AI — data centers included. Four of the fourteen named here voted for it four separate times. Now they are campaigning on letting your town decide.
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.
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.
An ICE Camp Is Going Up in Tom Kean Jr.'s District. His Own Republican Town Council Says He Never Showed Up for Them.
DHS paid $129 million for a warehouse in Roxbury and wants to fill it with detainees. Roxbury's all-Republican council says Kean 'did not engage to the level we had hoped.' He has never once asked DHS to cancel it.
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.
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.
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.
Tom Kean Jr. Got Help for His Depression. He Voted to Make It Harder for Everyone Else.
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. returned from a months-long absence and revealed he was treated for depression. He calls himself a supporter of mental health care — but his record is a long list of votes making that care harder to get.
They Found Tom Kean Jr. — at Home, in a Suit, Still Not Doing His Job
A New York Times reporter finally spotted the missing New Jersey congressman at his home. He has skipped more than 100 votes since March — but kept trading stocks.