Congress put it in writing: no law lets the Education Department hand its jobs to other agencies. Then it passed the bill anyway, asked for briefings it never got, and started writing new laws to make the whole thing legal after the fact.
Bergman's chief of staff took home $221,242 in taxpayer money last year and runs a political consulting firm on the side — with his pay structured so he never had to disclose it. A retired judge and a Navy chaplain want the House Ethics Committee to look into it.
James's wife put up to $50,000 into Elon Musk's SpaceX on June 12, the day it began trading. He sits on the committee that oversees the FCC, which regulates Starlink. And he got an extension on his annual disclosure until nine days after Michigan's primary.
Standing next to Trump at the GM Proving Grounds, the Republican running for Michigan governor repeated the Big Lie in a single sentence. It's the same thing he did after losing his own race in 2020.
Five Republicans in Congress had SpaceX money on the line — four of them bought in the week of the IPO while sitting on committees that oversee parts of the company's business. Six weeks later, every one of them voted for a stock-trading bill that bans new purchases but lets them keep what they already own.
The Michigan Republican chairs the committee that just advanced 10 bills to carve up the Department of Education and hand its jobs to Labor, Treasury, State, HHS and Interior.
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
A Metro Times investigation found Rep. Bill Huizenga's campaign paid a company owned by his half-brother over $400,000 — the same brother who helped run his luxury condo business.
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.
