Brecheen acknowledged at a Poteau town hall that some people say tariffs are hurting them, then said he checked with the Tax Foundation and they come out ahead. The Tax Foundation's own tracker, updated six days before that town hall, says the tariffs are a tax increase.
The ordinance would have added veterans as a protected class and extended existing LGBTQ protections from housing to public accommodations. Three Tulsa city councilors say Kevin Hern phoned them to raise concerns about federal funding. The sponsors pulled it, and Tulsa's law reads the same today.
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.
An AI super PAC that raised $125 million exists to stop states and cities from enforcing their own AI rules. One of these Republicans wrote the bill that does the preempting, one was promised $850,000 in a race he had already won, two were buying the stock, and one was carried by $2.35 million in outside money.
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.
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 Michigan repealed it.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 weeks after the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that children born here are citizens, Greg Steube filed the Birthright CLAIM Act. Stephanie Bice, Ralph Norman and Tim Burchett put their names on it.
The enhanced ACA tax credits expired and enrollment fell 12% nationwide — 32% in Ohio and Oklahoma. Here is the collapse state by state, and the fourteen Republicans who voted for it.
One wrote half of it and voted no. One called it 'inextricably linked' to a recession, then said she led the effort. One got $8.5 billion for his state and didn't show up. Here's the receipt.
