The Kansas City Star found Roger Marshall's taxpayer-funded travel through Sarasota was four times larger than earlier reporting showed. One flight came five days after he signed off on a boat lift at his Florida house. The house is now listed for $1.45 million.
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.
The 2025 budget law cut SNAP by $187 billion — about 20%, the largest cut the program has ever taken. Six of these eight Republicans voted for it. Between them they co-chaired the hunger caucus, chaired the nutrition subcommittee, told the public a food bank was on their side, and turned down $18 million meant to feed kids.
Detainees at CoreCivic's Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez protested after signs went up saying there would be no hot food or hot water. Lunch was two tortillas, two slices of bologna, shredded cheese and a thin slice of cake. Breakfast was cereal and sour milk.
At least 29 Haitians have been detained in Springfield, Ohio since their legal status ended July 27 — picked up in shopping plazas, at a car wash, at a gas station. They're being held at a county jail already 261 people over its own listed capacity.
A DHS Inspector General report found fentanyl investigation hours dropped 31% while immigration enforcement hours rose more than 800%. At one field office, 99% of the work was immigration. ICE agreed with the findings and said it would review staffing — by June 2027.
The Bureau of Land Management wants to erase the 10-mile no-drilling buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park — 336,400 acres opened to oil, gas and uranium. UNESCO says extraction is incompatible with World Heritage status and is waiting on an answer from Washington.
A seven-page Census Bureau report with no named authors and no margin of error says 24,000 noncitizens voted in 2020 — less than 0.019% of the voters it checked. Trump says it proves he won. Experts say the whole result could be statistical noise.
Pennsylvania's SNAP rolls fell from 1.96 million to 1.74 million in a year, and the state says nearly half of that is Trump's budget bill. All nine of these Republicans voted for it — including the Agriculture chairman who promised 'absolutely no reductions.'
