He called the H-1B program 'a scam,' then went after Microsoft Gaming's CEO by name over a viral claim about layoffs. Microsoft's answer: 'These decisions are based on business need, not visa status.'
Trumbull Regional Medical Center closed in March 2025, putting nearly 700 people out of work and wiping out the county's only behavioral health provider. It reopened for 43 days, closed again, and surrendered its license. Joyce's one documented action was a letter to the Attorney General — seven weeks before he voted for the law taking $33 billion of Medicaid out of Ohio.
In May 2021 Hagerty cosponsored a bipartisan $3.265 billion bridge repair program, citing Memphis's shut-down I-40 bridge. That exact program went into the infrastructure law — and in August he ground the Senate to a halt to delay it, then voted no.
When he said it in March 2026, neither blast furnace at the Granite City mill was making steel and the plant was still hiring for a restart that hadn't happened yet. One furnace had been down since 2019 — a year after the tariffs. A fully staffed mill employs 1,200 to 1,300 people. And it isn't in his district anymore.
H.R. 6213 is fifty words long. It would permanently forbid the Labor Department from ever protecting workers from heat. Messmer says states can handle it — but Indiana law makes that illegal.
Her evidence was one bicycle factory in Seymour. A new University of Illinois study says 2025's tariffs cost the average Hoosier household $2,600, cut $2.65 billion from Indiana's economy, and wiped out 9,148 manufacturing jobs.
She chairs the Veterans' Affairs oversight subcommittee. She cheered DOGE from its first meeting and told laid-off federal workers to 'go out and get' other jobs. Only after Politico counted the damage in Virginia Beach did she say she was working to reverse it.
In May 2025 Wittman told Virginians he opposed 'reckless cuts' to the federal workforce. In June and July he voted twice for the bill that made DOGE's cuts permanent. Virginia lost 23,500 federal jobs in eleven months.
In 2021 Comer voted no on the infrastructure law and said its money was going to things that 'do not affect Kentucky's 1st District.' In July 2026 he announced a $24 million grant for Paducah's riverport — paid for by the exact law he voted against.