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Sarah Sanders' school voucher program ate up more than $309 million of taxpayer money in a single school year without improving a single public school in Arkansas.
Six weeks before the forecast that will shape his next budget, Pillen replaced a third of Nebraska's independent revenue-forecasting board — the first governor to do that in its 40-year history — installing Lou Ann Linehan and Tom Briese, who championed the income tax cuts that have contributed to a third straight budget hole of at least $200 million. Linehan says she doesn't think there is a problem.
Treasury and the IRS want to treat Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit refunds as a 'federal public benefit' under the 1996 welfare law, cutting off working families with DACA, TPS and other lawful statuses. A leading budget think tank counts roughly 1 million people hurt, including hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizen kids.
PolitiFact rated False an ad Donalds shared claiming Jolly 'wants more taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security.' Jolly says he doesn't support taxing Social Security, and a Florida governor has no power over those taxes, because Florida has no state income tax.
The 24% wholesale tax was supposed to send $420 million a year to Michigan roads. James told marijuana executives at their own fundraiser he wants it gone, then said so publicly weeks later. He has not said how he would replace the road money.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
Abbott's new affordability plan promises to cut property taxes in half by zeroing out school taxes on homesteads. He has been governor since 2015, and statewide property tax levies have risen from $51.2 billion to $89.4 billion on his watch. Nearly 4 in 10 homesteads already owe no school tax, and Texas's 4.1 million renters get nothing.
The 2015 tax package was a Republican governor's bill. Eight Senate Republicans backed it, including Ben Kieckhefer, whom Lombardo later hired to run the governor's office. The same ad attacks Ford over data center tax breaks Lombardo supports.
Obama, Biden and Trump all tried to close the carried interest loophole. In April 2025 Hinson signed a letter asking the House tax chairman to keep it. A hedge fund billionaire has since put $1.5 million into a super PAC boosting her Senate race.
