Missouri's Jason Smith chairs the tax committee. He used that power to slip a doubled prison sentence for tax-return leakers into a 1,082-page budget bill — while telling his own committee there was nothing to see in DOGE's access to taxpayer data.
A new analysis puts a number on Ramaswamy's promise to roll property taxes back to pre-pandemic levels: $4 billion a year in his first budget, $6.6 billion a year in his second. His plan to pay for it is growing Ohio's population by 36%.
A stock-tracking firm estimates Nebraska's billionaire senator gained $8.6 million in the market in a single month. He's the 7th wealthiest member of Congress — and he voted to let health care tax credits expire.
Trump is slapping new double-digit tariffs on 60 countries right before the midterms. Tariffs are a tax paid by Americans — and Republicans in Congress have blocked every vote to stop them.
Ramaswamy named four Ohio public universities he wanted to defund and said the state shouldn't fund 'subpar' schools. After bipartisan backlash, he's pretending he never said it.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is already floating a fourth party-line bill for more tax cuts and deeper spending cuts — after ramming through a law that gutted Medicaid and SNAP.
Rep. Adrian Smith is touting the Republican tax law as a win for Nebraska. He wrote the tax piece — and voted for a bill that also cuts up to $4 billion in Medicaid and has already stripped food aid from 18,000 Nebraskans.
He voted to gut health coverage for hundreds of thousands of Ohioans, cut taxes for the rich, and takes his money from powerful corporations.
Ramaswamy wants to wipe out Ohio's capital gains tax. His own tax returns show it would save him roughly $5.8 million — while costing Ohio's schools and hospitals hundreds of millions a year.