Nearly 2.5 million American children have lost Medicaid or CHIP since January 2025 — before the 2025 budget bill's Medicaid cuts have even started. Indiana leads the country. Baird, Houchin, Messmer, Shreve, Spartz, Stutzman and Yakym all voted aye.
Whatley's campaign told the Washington Post that 'prices were down considerably in 2025.' The government's own index says the opposite: overall prices rose 2.7% across 2025 and groceries rose 2.4%. Prices have gone up another 3% since.
In 2021, then-state Rep. Joe Mitchell voted to expand Iowa's Workforce Housing Tax Credit. Two development firms he later partnered in took $2,559,880 from that program across three projects. He calls the federal version 'too much paperwork.'
On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.
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.
Michigan's Republican Senate nominee told a private audience he likes the idea of charging people for the cancer screenings and other preventive care that are free today. Four months later he released a health care plan that never mentions it, and his campaign will not say whether it is still his position.
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.
In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump called a raise for federal workers 'unacceptable and ... unfair' because of Biden-era inflation. Inflation has risen from 2.8% when Biden left office to 3.3% last month. The House's own spending bills say nothing — which lets the freeze stand.
Accepting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's endorsement at an Indianola factory, Miller-Meeks told the workers she voted for Trump's budget bill 'not for business organizations or owners' but 'for you all' — then said she hasn't heard from a single Iowan hurt by it.
