Arkansas's self-appointed debt hawk wants a commission to bring deficits down to 3% of GDP. His own press release celebrating the bill that added $3.4 trillion runs about five hundred words and never mentions the deficit once.
The Senate came back with a bill that added about $1 trillion more to the deficit than the one Burchett already called too expensive. He went to the White House, got a signed souvenir, and voted for it the next day.
A November ballot measure would charge California's 200-plus billionaires a one-time 5% tax to backfill federal health care cuts. Kiley drafted federal legislation to block it after reports that Zuckerberg and Google's founders might leave.
The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill is costing Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid and has already taken food assistance from 18,000 Nebraskans.
Idaho cut most state agencies 4% this year and 5% next year to absorb a $155 million hole created by matching Trump's federal tax cuts. In July, Brad Little pointed at the $250 million left over and said he won't be putting any of it back.
Garbarino spent months as one of five Republicans holding Trump's budget bill hostage over the SALT deduction. When it finally came to a vote at 6:54 a.m., he was asleep in the back.
Charles built a campaign ad around raising Maine's homestead exemption. More than 327,000 Mainers claim that break every year. His own town says he never has — and his campaign still can't say how he'd pay to expand it.
Amendment 3 would pull as much as $12 billion a year out of Florida's cities and counties. Renters get nothing. A sheriff who endorsed Donalds calls it a 'train wreck.' Donalds has spent $10 million telling Floridians to vote yes.
Lindell's 72-page plan cuts education by $4.9 billion, healthcare by $11 billion and public assistance by $3.6 billion — then makes up $16.5 billion of it with the 'Lindell Direct Assistance Program,' his own charitable model.