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Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
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Brandon Herrera thinks women voting ruined America #maga #texas #brandonherrera
Brandon Herrera thinks the country "went to shit" after women won the right to vote.
170,000 Fewer Louisianans Are on Food Stamps Since Trump's Budget Bill. All Four of Louisiana's Republicans in the House Voted for It Twice.
Louisiana's SNAP rolls fell by about 170,000 people — 21% — in the year after Trump signed his budget bill, one of the steepest drops in the country. Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson, Clay Higgins and Julia Letlow all voted for the law, in May and again in July 2025.
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Republicans gutted Medicaid and timed the worst of it for after you vote #maga #louisiana #medicaid
Congressional Republicans voted to slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next ten years, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the cuts will take health insurance from 10 million Americans.
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Mike Johnson backs Max Miller despite a domestic violence probe #maga #ohio #louisiana
Max Miller is under House Ethics investigation for domestic violence, after his ex-wife accused him of throwing scalding water on her, putting a gun to her head, and breaking their toddler's collarbone.
Republicans Cut Medicaid by Nearly $1 Trillion. They Scheduled the Pain for After You Vote.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Most Americans Don't Want a Data Center Next Door. Mike Johnson Says That's 'a Chinese Psyop.'
On Fox Business, Speaker Mike Johnson told voters not to believe the backlash against AI data centers — 'This is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That's not a conspiracy theory.' Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose one in their own community, and Big Tech is putting $62 billion into data centers in his home state.
Trump's Budget Bill Will Likely Force States to Cut Medicaid Payments to Doctors and Hospitals by More Than $50 Billion a Year. 76 Republicans We Track From the Hardest-Hit States Voted for It.
A new Health Affairs analysis finds the 2025 budget bill's limits on Medicaid payments will likely force three dozen states to cut what they pay doctors and hospitals by more than $50 billion a year, starting in 2028. Fewer providers are likely to take Medicaid patients. These 76 Republicans on our report cards, from the 15 states facing the biggest cuts, voted yes.
Jon Husted, Andy Biggs and Mike Johnson Now Say Trump's Iran War Should End. Together They Voted 25 Times Not to End It.
Sen. Jon Husted wants the war over 'as quickly as possible.' Rep. Andy Biggs says he doesn't 'support the war, per se.' Speaker Mike Johnson says it's time to 'bring that to a resolution.' Every time Congress voted on ending it, all three voted no.
Pete Hegseth's Pentagon Hasn't Disclosed At Least Four U.S. Troop Deaths in the Middle East. It Did Post a Video Starring Jake and Logan Paul.
Six U.S. officials told The Washington Post that at least 22 service members have died in the Middle East during the Iran war — four more than the Pentagon's public count — and the Pentagon declined to explain the gap. The same week, Hegseth hosted YouTubers Jake and Logan Paul at the Pentagon and put the video online.
Louisiana's Four Republicans in the House Voted Twice for Medicaid Work Rules. Now the State Says 58,000 Louisianans May Fall Short of Them.
Louisiana's health department told lawmakers that as many as 58,000 Medicaid recipients may have to take extra steps to keep their coverage when Trump's budget bill work requirements begin in January — 46,000 of them with no income at all. Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Clay Higgins and Julia Letlow voted for the law twice.
Twice the House Came One Vote From Telling Trump to End the Iran War — the First Resolution Lost 213-214, the Next Deadlocked 212-212, and 181 Republicans We Track Voted No on Both.
On April 16 a war powers resolution failed 213-214. On May 14 the next one deadlocked 212-212, and a tie fails. Either one needed exactly one Republican to switch. Only Thomas Massie, who has no page here, voted yes both times.
The Republicans We Cover Keep Putting White Nationalists on the Payroll, the Stage and the Ballot. Asked About It, They Denounce Racism in General and Never Say the Name.
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
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Mike Johnson runs a do-nothing Congress — 72 voting days in 2026
Members of Congress are paid $174,000 a year.
185 House Members We Track Voted to Make States Hand Your Medicaid and Food Stamp Records to Trump's Former Defense Lawyer
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
Mike Johnson Keeps Canceling House Workdays When a Vote Might Rebuke Trump. Members Are Paid $174,000 a Year, and the House Has Voted on 72 Days of 2026.
Two weeks after promising to work 'every day that's on the calendar,' the Speaker canceled the last two weeks of September — then cut the final Thursday too, the day a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth could have been forced. An Epstein files petition was left short of the 218 signatures it needs. The House has held a recorded vote on 72 of the year's 259 days, and has enacted 110 laws this Congress.
Robert Aderholt Says a Report He and 12 Other Republicans We Track Requested Shows Taxpayers Are 'Subsidizing' Abortion. The Report Says Federal Subsidies Can't Pay for It.
Robert Aderholt, Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 other tracked Republicans requested a GAO review of abortion coverage in Obamacare plans. Aderholt and Chris Smith then used it to demand 'full Hyde protections for all ACA plans.' GAO's own summary says federal law already bars tax credits from paying for abortion, that insurers must price that coverage at no less than $1 a month, and that almost every plan that covers it is in a state whose law requires coverage.
180 House Members We Track Voted a Third Time to Keep Trump's Iran War Going. Congress's Budget Office Says It Has Already Cost $38 Billion.
On September 15 the House voted 220-204 to end the war with Iran — the third time since June. Republicans voted 203 to 7 against it, and 180 of the members who voted no are on our report cards. The same day, the Congressional Budget Office put the war's direct cost at $38.1 billion and said it will push inflation higher into 2027.
Mike Johnson Says Trump's $5,000 Checks Come 'Regardless of How You Vote.' Trump Promised Them 'If the Republicans Win.'
Trump told a Republican convention that every adult gets $5,000 if Republicans keep the House and Senate. Mike Johnson says that isn't buying votes, and answers worries about the $1.2 trillion cost by pointing to the 'wasteful' spending his budget bill cut. The biggest of those cuts was to Medicaid, with food assistance and student loans behind it, and the law still adds $3.4 trillion to the deficit.
Your Health Premiums Jumped 58%. House Republicans Came Back and Voted to Tell Colleges What They're Allowed to Boycott.
The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
These 188 Republicans Voted to Lock the Supreme Court at Nine Seats While Republican Appointees Hold Six of Them
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
Miami-Dade Ended Universal Free Meals at All But 121 of Its 500-Plus Schools. Free Meal Funding Is Tied to SNAP Enrollment, and All Three Republicans Who Represent the County Voted for the SNAP Cuts.
Schools that feed every student for free qualify for funding tied to rates of SNAP participation. More than 5.6 million people have lost SNAP in a year — faster than the CBO predicted — and Florida's largest school district has already dropped universal free meals at all but 121 of its schools.
Mike Johnson Says Max Miller Has Been a 'Great Member of Congress.' Miller Is Under an Ethics Investigation for Domestic Violence, and the Accuser's Father Is a Republican Senator.
Asked on Aug. 31 whether he backs Miller's reelection, the Speaker said yes and called the abuse allegations 'some issues in his personal life.' Sen. Bernie Moreno, whose daughter is the accuser, says she 'lives in constant fear of this man.'
208 House Republicans Just Voted to Lock In the Food-Safety Layoffs. Complaints About Contaminated Meat Had Risen 40%.
H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
Trump Set Federal Workers' 2027 Raise to Zero and Gave Law Enforcement 3.8%. He Blamed Inflation That Has Gone Up on His Own Watch.
In a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump called a raise for federal workers 'unacceptable and ... unfair' because of Biden-era inflation. Inflation has risen from 2.8% when Biden left office to 3.3% last month. The House's own spending bills say nothing — which lets the freeze stand.
Richard Hudson Told House Republicans to Stop Holding In-Person Town Halls. Since Then They Have Held 231. Democrats Have Held 1,042.
Two years ago Republicans held more town halls than Democrats. In the first half of this year they held 39 in person — 17% of the town halls they held at all. One told MS NOW that a town hall is 'a good way to get shot.' Another said Democrats 'ruined' them. The one Republican who still shows up says it works fine.
Trump Promised to Wipe Out the $19 Trillion Debt in Eight Years. This Week It Passed $40 Trillion.
The debt hit $40 trillion on Wednesday. Trump's second term added $3.8 trillion of it in 19 months. Republicans still call themselves the party of fiscal responsibility.
The Republicans Who Voted Against the CHIPS Act — Then Took Credit for the Jobs
One wrote half of it and voted no. One called it 'inextricably linked' to a recession, then said she led the effort. One got $8.5 billion for his state and didn't show up. Here's the receipt.
One in Every 14 Union Members in America Just Lost Their Contract by Executive Order. 195 House Republicans Voted to Keep It That Way.
Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
Republicans Spent 2024 Calling Brandon Herrera Too Extreme for Congress. Now Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him.
The Speaker campaigned for Herrera at a San Antonio barbecue joint days after another video surfaced. Johnson backed his opponent in 2024 and again this year, Trump's lawyer sent him a cease-and-desist letter in January, and a Republican group ran ads saying he 'does not belong in Congress.' Nothing about the record changed. A seat came open.
Congress Gave ICE $70 Billion and No Rules on Conduct. Now ICE Is Buying Electric Shock Gloves.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
Mike Johnson Calls Himself a 'Zealous Guardian of Due Process.' Watch Who Gets It.
A Texas Republican admitted an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, and the Speaker said it wasn't 'time' to talk about resigning. With Max Miller accused of domestic abuse, Johnson says it's 'not my business.' He had no such trouble deciding about Democrats.
"I Run the Protection Program." Mike Johnson Told a Room of Conservative Activists He'd Keep Congress From Investigating Them.
At the Faith and Freedom Coalition summit in June, the Speaker of the House told the crowd that Democrats would investigate Trump's donors and friends — and that he personally is what stands in the way. Oversight is his job. He described it as the threat.
$70 Billion for ICE Passed the House by Two Votes. Not One Republican Voted No.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
ICE Is Reading Your Posts. Congress Paid for It.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
The 4 Best States in America Don't Have a Single Republican in Congress
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
207 House Republicans Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War — And Lost
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 185 Republicans we track voted no — the second time the House has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop it from saying so.
House Republicans Are Trying to Sneak Voter Suppression Through the Budget Back Door
The SAVE Act keeps failing in the Senate, so House Republicans are trying to jam Trump's voter-suppression agenda into a budget bill that only needs 51 votes.
These 190 Republicans Voted to Let an Energy Board Block Clean-Air Rules
The House passed the 'Reliable Power Act,' handing federal energy regulators the power to stall EPA rules on power-plant pollution. Here's every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
The Supreme Court Protected Birthright Citizenship. Mike Johnson Says Congress Will 'Deal With It.'
After the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship and blocked Trump's order to end it, Speaker Mike Johnson said he was 'disappointed' and that Congress will 'deal with it' — floating a change to the Constitution itself.
197 Republicans Voted to Spike Your Health Insurance Premiums
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.