A video recorded when Iowa Republican Joe Mitchell was a 19-year-old Drake University student shows him shouting 'I don't like Black women,' cursing white people and making crude racial remarks about his Black friends. Mitchell, Trump's pick in Iowa's 2nd District, didn't dispute the footage — he said he's 'grown up' and blamed cameras.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.
Ashley Hinson's Senate ad claims she 'voted to release the Epstein files' and calls her opponent a liar. X's Community Note fills in the rest: she voted yes in November 2025 only after a discharge petition she never signed forced the bill to the floor — and in July 2025 she voted with every Republican who voted to block an earlier vote on releasing them.
At the October 8 Iowa PBS debate, the Republican running for Iowa's open 2nd District seat said he would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Asked what would take its place, he talked about his childhood and Medicaid work requirements — and never named a replacement.
States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.
In a TV ad, Iowa governor candidate Zach Lahn vows to 'ban H-1B visa holders from being hired by Iowa government and universities.' The private school he co-founded in Wichita petitioned for H-1B workers in 2018 and again in 2021 — with Lahn listed as the main contact.
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.
