The Interior Secretary leads the Trump administration's data center push and oversees most of the federal land it wants to use. An analysis shared with ProPublica puts $18.1 million to $64.4 million of his investments in AI companies. President Bush's ethics lawyer says he would have had to step aside.
Trump's son-in-law has represented the U.S. on Iran, Ukraine and Gaza while his private equity firm collects fees from Middle Eastern governments. He said he wouldn't join a second Trump administration, the White House calls him a 'volunteer' and he has filed no financial disclosure. For nearly two years, Republican majorities let it slide.
The morning after she won the governor's race, Marsha Blackburn refused to say whether she'd appoint former CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger to her Senate seat. He stood in the room, said he's 'absolutely' interested, and has given the maximum to her campaign plus $50,000 to a PAC linked to it.
The Intercept reports Ashley Hinson's campaign digital chief co-founded Targeted Victory, a firm tied to a company paid $9.9 million by Israel for influence work. Her joint fundraising committee spent 27 percent of its money there, and she took more than $100,000 from or through AIPAC and related PACs this cycle.
Three watchdog groups sued the Defense Department over Project Meridian, a closed-door advisory panel co-led by two billionaire defense contractors. SpaceX holds about $8 billion in Pentagon contracts, and Anduril won a Navy deal worth up to $2.9 billion days after the panel was announced.
A Washington Post analysis links an anonymous X account that posted slurs, praised violence and called for replacing democracy with a dictatorship to a man who worked in Mike Collins' congressional office. He joins a former chief of staff, another former staffer and Collins' son-in-law on the list of people around Collins tied to extremist content.
Two people doing campaign work for Michigan Senate nominee Mike Rogers are registered with the Justice Department as agents of the government of Israel, paid through Brad Parscale's firm. One of them has been speaking to reporters for the campaign all fall.
On May 15, 2025, Rep. Rob Bresnahan's account bought shares of ConocoPhillips, Marathon Petroleum, Occidental, Valero and Caterpillar. A week later he voted for Trump's budget bill, which expanded oil and gas leasing and cut drilling royalties. The same day, his account sold health insurers that cover Medicaid patients.
A class-action lawsuit filed October 29 accuses Sen. Roger Marshall and his former Great Bend OB-GYN practice of charging patients — many of them low-income or uninsured mothers — 18% interest on medical debt, above the 15% Kansas allows. The lead plaintiff was sued over the bill for delivering her child and arrested three times.