His District Is On Fire. Pete Stauber Blamed Canada.
A $10 million grant to clear dead trees in the Superior National Forest was frozen by DOGE. Now those woods are burning — and the congressman who cheered DOGE on is pointing at Canada.
A $10 million grant to clear dead trees in the Superior National Forest was frozen by DOGE. Now those woods are burning — and the congressman who cheered DOGE on is pointing at Canada.
A federal judge voided the Trump administration's termination of a $2.8 billion clean-air grant program. The EPA read that ruling and concluded no action was required. The judge had to order it a second time.
At least ten Alabama communities have pushed back on data centers over water, power, and noise. The Republican nominee for governor says those neighbors are repeating Chinese propaganda.
That's one of three. He also cheered on the cuts that took $37.7 million from the University of Tennessee system, and after 15 years in Congress his lifetime environmental score is 2%.
He voted against pulling U.S. troops out of the Iran war, sponsored a bill to bring back the coal industry's advisory council, and his single largest source of money is a crypto firm.
He also voted for the SAVE Act, which would make Americans prove citizenship in person to register — 146 million of them don't have a passport — and he skipped the town hall his own constituents organized.
He's the lead sponsor of a federal abortion bill in a state where the ban already drove sepsis rates up more than 50%, and his lifetime environmental score is 1% in one of the country's smoggiest metros.
Asked how he can promise to protect southwest Missouri's water while backing data centers that drink it, Burlison told Jasper County voters that 'what the business is doing doesn't matter.'
He called people who live in cities 'inner-city rats,' says Islam 'is not a religion,' and backed a bill Alabama clean-energy advocates warn will destroy solar jobs in the state.