Kentucky's SNAP rolls have dropped from 627,164 people last October to just under 547,000, and Gov. Andy Beshear says about 80,000 lost food aid because of the federal changes in Trump's budget bill — including 24,655 children and 6,572 seniors. Four of Kentucky's five Republican House members voted for it. The fifth, Thomas Massie, voted no.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
Barr stood with Trump's Medicaid chief and said the cuts aren't cuts. Dr. Oz warned that Kentucky's $212.9 million could be taken back. Beshear's answer: federal rules bar that money from going to financially struggling hospitals.
H.R. 10222 would make a whole city — or a whole state — ineligible for any HUD grant. In Montana that money pays for homeless shelters, rapid rehousing and youth homelessness programs. Downing wouldn't answer what it would do to Helena.
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.
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.
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.
Internet Archive captures confirm it: between July 8 and July 28, 2026, Andy Barr's Senate campaign homepage lost its 'Trump-Endorsed' badge, its photo of Barr with Trump, its 'Endorsed by President Trump' pop-up, and its 'Close the Border' and 'Stand Proudly for Life' planks.
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.
Barr sent Governor Beshear a letter demanding evidence that 35 rural hospitals are at risk. Beshear called it 'misleading and inaccurate' and pointed out that Barr voted for the cuts. Barr's proof that the warnings were wrong: the hospitals are still open, a year after a bill whose Medicaid cuts had barely begun.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
In March 2025 Barr told a Commerce Lexington luncheon that Musk had assured him 'face to face' that University of Kentucky research was safe and there'd be no broad federal workforce cuts. UK was already facing a $40 million hit, and 317,000 federal workers were gone by year's end.
In 2021 Barr said he'd 'always be an advocate' for opening foreign markets to Kentucky distillers. Then exports to Canada fell 42%, Jim Beam paused production at Clermont for all of 2026 — and Barr voted against ending the Canada tariffs and called the damage 'short-term turbulence.'
Barr's first Senate ad borrowed a slogan the Anti-Defamation League catalogs as a hate slogan adopted by white supremacists. A veteran Kentucky political columnist called it the most overtly racist statewide campaign he can remember. Then Barr won the primary.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
