The budget resolution LaLota voted for on February 25, 2025 doesn't contain the word Medicaid. It orders one committee to cut $880 billion — and 93% of that committee's spending is Medicaid. Four months later he voted for the bill that made the cuts real. 21,673 people in his district are projected to lose coverage by 2034.
In 2023 he campaigned for mayor on banning assault weapons in Indianapolis, restoring its concealed-carry permit requirement and raising the buying age to 21. The NRA gave him an F and warned voters he was faking an A rating. Then he won a red seat — and signed on to a bill overriding gun permit laws nationwide.
The man in charge of electing House Republicans says voters remember $9 gas and that prices are down. The record national average was $5.02. Gas was $4.45 the week he said it, and North Carolina diesel set an all-time high in April.
Doctors in the room shouted that it was false. Bilirakis backed up the claim by pointing at a real board — one that was never appointed, never met, was legally barred from rationing care, and was abolished a year later. 'The board exists, OK?' he told CNN.
A pollster found anti-Muslim sentiment spikes during election cycles, not after terrorist attacks. Within a day of Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Republicans proved her point.
Rogers attributed a Twitch streamer's 2019 comment to Abdul El-Sayed, who had said the opposite on Fox News. PolitiFact gave it their worst rating and noted the attack evokes anti-Muslim tropes.
The day after Kelly learned the Butler steel plant would be saved, his wife bought 5,000 shares of the company. Eight months later she cashed out for a $64,476 profit. The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to reprove him — not for the trade, but for how he answered questions about it.
At a county GOP dinner in March 2017, Pennsylvania's Mike Kelly said Barack Obama stayed in Washington for one reason: to secretly sabotage Donald Trump. He gave the real reason in the same breath. Then his office walked it back twice in one day.
In July 2022 Meuser said protecting same-sex and interracial marriage was an easy call that hurt nobody's religious rights. In December he voted no, saying the bill threatened religious freedom. The only thing that changed was that the bill added religious freedom protections.