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Articles about Sarah Sanders
Sarah Sanders Is Making Weekly Taxpayer-Funded 'Capital for a Day' Trips in the Final Weeks of Her Campaign. She Signed the Law That Hides What Her Travel Costs.
With weeks to go before she's on the ballot, Gov. Sarah Sanders has stepped up her 'Capital for a Day' tours to roughly once a week, bringing cabinet secretaries along on the state's dime. A former aide to her father says his administration stopped the trips at election time because it 'would be using taxpayer dollars to campaign.' The public can't see what they cost: Sanders signed a 2023 law shielding her travel records.
Sarah Sanders Promised Longer Prison Sentences Would Fix Arkansas's Violent Crime. Three Years Later, It's the Fifth-Least-Safe State in America.
In 2023, Gov. Sarah Sanders signed a law keeping violent offenders locked up longer and said Arkansas's crime rate was 'no mistake.' A new WalletHub report ranks Arkansas the fifth-least-safe state in the country, and FBI data still puts it 47th for violent crime.
Sarah Sanders Said No Child Should Be Trapped by Their ZIP Code. Her $301 Million Voucher Program Is 76% White in a State Whose Students Are 58% White.
The first state voucher report to count students by race shows white kids hold 76% of Sarah Sanders' voucher seats while Black students hold under 5%. Only about one in four voucher students in grades 1–12 came out of a public school.
Sarah Sanders Is Spending Six Figures on an Ad Calling Medicaid Patients Lazy. The Last Time Arkansas Tried Her Work Requirement, 18,000 People Lost Coverage.
Sanders's new statewide ad features 'Brad,' a Medicaid recipient eating cheese balls and playing video games, to sell a work requirement that comes from Trump's budget bill. Arkansas already tried one: 18,000 people lost their health coverage and experts found no job gains.
Sarah Sanders Lost in Court, So She Packed the Prison Board With Loyalists and Had It Agree She Was Right. A Judge Called It 'an Unjustifiable Attempt to Usurp the Power of the People.'
Courts ruled at least four times that Gov. Sarah Sanders couldn't take control of Arkansas prisons away from the Board of Corrections. So she replaced the board members who sued her, and her new majority signed a deal declaring the laws constitutional. A judge threw it out.
Sarah Sanders's New Ad Says She Refused to 'Comply' With a Biden Order on Trans Athletes. Biden's Rule Didn't Cover Sports, and Arkansas Banned Trans Athletes Before She Took Office.
Sarah Sanders's reelection ad shows a bearded adult man trying to join a women's college team and says she defied the Biden administration and 'won the fight' over women's sports. Biden's 2024 Title IX rule didn't address sports, and Arkansas's trans-athlete ban was signed by Asa Hutchinson in 2021.
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Sarah Sanders is starving our public schools to pay for rich kids' perks
Sarah Sanders' school voucher program ate up more than $309 million of taxpayer money in a single school year without improving a single public school in Arkansas.
Sarah Sanders Built a $309 Million Voucher Program on a Scholarship for Disabled Kids. Private Schools Don't Have to Take Them, and Often Don't.
A ProPublica investigation found private schools routinely reject the disabled children who were used to sell vouchers in the first place. Arkansas built exactly that program in 2015, the University of Arkansas wrote in 2017 that such programs are 'often seen as' a foot in the door, and LEARNS swallowed it whole.
Sarah Sanders Hasn't Called the Session That Would Clear Arkansas' Disability Waitlist. Her Republican Predecessor Zeroed Out the Same List for $37 Million.
Asa Hutchinson put more than $37 million into zeroing out the CES waiver waitlist in 2021. Four years into Sanders' term it is back above 2,400 people. A Little Rock lawmaker puts the cost of clearing it at $35 to $50 million; her voucher program costs more than $367 million this year.
Arkansas Will Spend Up to $379 Million on Sarah Sanders' Vouchers. It Asks Those Schools for Fire Drills, Shot Records, and a Flagpole.
Three years into the LEARNS Act, Arkansas has never permanently barred a single school from its voucher program — not even the one where a 13-year-old was beaten. A former state senator lays out what the money buys, and what it doesn't.
Sarah Sanders' Voucher Program Signed Up 142 Schools Arkansas Doesn't Routinely Inspect. One Took Money From 56 Students and Vanished.
Arkansas invented a new kind of school called a microschool, sent it voucher money, and decided it isn't a private school and doesn't get routine visits. There are 142 of them now. One collapsed three weeks before classes started.
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37% of Arkansans say they don't have enough food to meet their needs.
Sarah Sanders made the effort to strip state control of AI out of the "One Big Beautiful Bill", but was OK with cuts to SNAP that will take food assistance from 25,000 Arkansans
Sarah Sanders Objected to Exactly One Part of Trump's Budget Bill. It Was the AI Rule, Not the Largest Food Aid Cut in American History.
A new statewide survey says 37% of Arkansans don't have enough food. In the Washington Post, the governor called Trump's budget bill a win for moving welfare recipients 'off the path to dependency.'
Arkansas Threw Out Every Single Signature. Sarah Sanders Signed the Laws and Picked the Man Who Did It.
More than 95,000 Arkansans signed a petition to protect their own right to put measures on the ballot. The state counted zero of them. The Secretary of State who made that call used to be Sarah Sanders' lawyer.
Every State Has a Squad That Catches People Who Abuse Nursing Home Patients. Thirteen Republicans Want Them Investigating You Instead.
A bill in Congress would point state Medicaid fraud investigators at the people who apply for Medicaid. Right now those investigators chase companies that overbill and caregivers who hurt patients — and they bring back $4.64 for every $1 they cost.
Sarah Sanders' Voucher Program Will Cost $367 Million This Year.
Arkansas expects 50,000 kids on Educational Freedom Accounts this year, at a cost of more than $367 million — ten times what the program cost in year one. Only 12% of participants came from a public school.
Sarah Sanders Tried to Punish the Republicans Who Killed Her Prison. She Went 0 for 3.
Arkansas Republicans voted down Gov. Sarah Sanders' $750 million mega-prison five times. She recruited primary challengers against the ones who stopped her, and lost every Senate primary she got into. Now the oil-and-gas worker who helped lead the opposition is on her November ballot.
200,000 Arkansans Could Lose the Coverage They Have. The Rule Doing It Came From the Bill Arkansas's Republicans Passed.
The Trump administration won't renew the Medicaid waiver that runs Arkansas's private option, citing authority from the 2025 budget bill. Every Arkansas Republican in Congress voted for that bill.
Sarah Sanders Says LEARNS Is Working. The Test She's Citing Is the One Arkansas Built Itself.
A former Little Rock superintendent spent two years predicting exactly how Arkansas's voucher program would go. In what he says may be his last column, he explains why the rising test scores in the governor's press release don't mean what she says they mean.
Sarah Sanders Gave Arkansas Two Voucher Programs. A Republican Wants a Third — and the Selling Point Is That It Has Fewer Rules.
A legislative panel just approved a study of a $100 million state tax credit for private school and homeschool families — on top of the up to $379 million Arkansas has approved for vouchers this year, and on top of the new federal one. Even a conservative school choice group says no.
Five Houses in Little Rock. Two of Them Occupied by Christians. That's the Sharia Takeover.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
Sarah Sanders Cheered the Bill That Just Killed Arkansas' Medicaid Expansion. Now 200,000 Arkansans Are Hanging in the Wind.
The Trump administration refused to renew ARHOME, the program covering more than 200,000 low-income Arkansans. The reason given comes straight out of the law Sarah Sanders spent a year celebrating.
She Sells Her Blood Twice a Week and Has $3.78 in the Bank. Under the Republican Law, 4.5 Million Fewer People Get Food Stamps.
A 1,000-mile road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky found people who can't afford toilet paper. The unemployment rate hasn't moved. The only thing that changed is the law nearly every Republican in Congress from those states voted for.
The 4 Best States in America Don't Have a Single Republican in Congress
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
A Voucher School Had Kids Scrub Floors and Beat a Classmate. Sarah Sanders Still Funds It.
An Arkansas private school that took state voucher money had students attack a 13-year-old and scrub floors as punishment — and Gov. Sarah Sanders' program keeps the checks coming with almost no oversight.
CNBC's 10 Worst States to Live In Are All Run by Republicans
CNBC just ranked the 10 worst states to live in America for 2026. Every single one is a Republican trifecta — including Sarah Sanders' Arkansas and Greg Abbott's Texas.
Sarah Sanders Skipped the Debate. Her Record Showed Up Anyway.
Gov. Sarah Sanders declined to debate her two challengers in Eureka Springs. The empty chair didn't stop them from walking through her record on schools, healthcare, and prisons.
Sarah Sanders Called a Jonesboro Factory a Chinese Threat — After Her Own Team Said It Was Innocent
Court records show Gov. Sarah Sanders' own agriculture secretary and the state's attorney general said a Jonesboro company was 'wrongly accused' and 'in compliance' with the law. She went on camera and called it a Communist China threat anyway.
Sarah Sanders' Office Knew the 'Chinese Spy' Story Was Unproven — and Pushed It Anyway
Court records show Gov. Sarah Sanders' own staff knew there was no proof a Fort Smith factory had ties to Communist China. They smeared an American company anyway — to get a headline.