Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was booked to headline a May 2 fundraiser for Carlos De La Cruz in San Antonio. De La Cruz called it an honor — in the state where two unvaccinated children had just died of measles.
The Senate parliamentarian threw the PCAOB's elimination out of Trump's budget bill in June 2025. Wagner put it back in June 2026 as Title V of a nine-title SEC package — along with a rule that would let corporate lawbreakers be fined for one violation instead of hundreds.
H.R. 1 through 20 were held by House leadership; H.R. 21 was the first number left, and Wagner took it on the opening day. It overrides a family's choice of comfort care for a dying newborn, makes any nurse who stays quiet a lawbreaker, and criminalizes conduct that has been illegal since 2002.
Wagner wrote FOSTA, signed into law in 2018. The GAO found DOJ brought exactly one case under it, no restitution had been sought when the auditors looked, and gathering evidence against traffickers got harder — because platforms moved overseas. In May 2026 she introduced another trafficking bill.
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.
Bean filed the 80-hours-a-month Medicaid work requirement in December 2024 and again in February 2025 — months before it became law. His version was broader than the one that passed, and 92% of the people it targets are already working, caregiving, sick, or in school.
Bean and Pete Sessions launched the House DOGE Caucus in November 2024 calling the national debt a wakeup call. Twenty months later the debt is $3.9 trillion higher, the caucus has stopped meeting, DOGE itself expired, and Bean's plan to revive it is unused office space.