Ted Cruz and Rick Scott back House GOP efforts to shut down the government
The two Republican senators oppose even considering legislation to help avert an Oct. 1 shutdown.
By Josh Israel - September 20, 2023The two Republican senators oppose even considering legislation to help avert an Oct. 1 shutdown.
By Josh Israel - September 20, 2023Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast on Aug. 30.
By Josh Israel - August 30, 2023Sam Brown is seeking the Republican nomination to run against Democratic incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen in 2024.
By Josh Israel - August 02, 2023The conservative nonprofit was newly included in the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of anti-government extremist groups.
By Will Fritz - June 13, 2023The Florida Republican falsely claimed on Wednesday that he doesn't endorse in primary elections.
By Josh Israel - June 09, 2023The Florida Republican senator called for a return to 2019 spending levels, which would cut funding for Social Security, Medicare, and veterans.
By Josh Israel - June 05, 2023Nearly the entire House and Senate Republican caucuses oppose equal rights. These 17 lawmakers take bigotry to an even higher level.
By Will Fritz and Josh Israel - June 02, 2023Republicans voted against an assault weapons ban and have advocated for safety net cuts.
By Oliver Willis - April 06, 2023Sen. Rick Scott used 2021 footage of Dr. Anthony Fauci trying to convince a D.C. resident to get vaccinated to question President Joe Biden’s current pandemic strategy.
By Josh Israel - March 22, 2023Scott was complaining about how ‘woke’ America’s armed forces are when he shared the unheard of story. Officials have not confirmed it.
By Josh Israel - March 20, 2023The American Action Network is spending $2 million on a new ad campaign.
By Josh Israel - March 06, 2023Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) wants to end the automated funding of the safety net program so Congress can start ‘managing it.’
By Josh Israel - February 13, 2023The Senate Republican leader says that the plan is Scott’s, not the Republican Party’s. But Scott is not alone.
By Josh Israel - February 10, 2023After Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Republicans contradicted their own previous calls for cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
By Josh Israel - February 08, 2023The Florida Republican’s recent ad about how to grow the U.S. economy appears to be illustrated with images filmed outside the country.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2023The Florida Republican repeated his false claim that Democrats had slashed the program by $280 billion moments after he called for finding other ways to reduce its cost.
By Josh Israel - February 02, 2023The Florida Republican senator, whose estimated net worth is $200 billion, also falsely accused Democrats of cutting funds for the Medicare program he is trying to sunset.
By Josh Israel - January 27, 2023The Florida Republican’s unpopular proposal would sunset Social Security and Medicare and raise taxes for millions.
By Josh Israel - January 05, 2023As chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Florida Republican also failed to secure the party’s control of the Senate.
By Josh Israel - December 07, 2022‘I’m not a global warming person. I don’t want that label on me,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis said in 2018.
By Adrian Cole - October 18, 2022The Florida Republican senator also skipped a key vote on a stopgap bill that funded emergency management and flood insurance.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2022The false claim was based on conservatives taking the vice president’s comments about the Biden administration’s racial injustice policy out of context.
By Oliver Willis - October 07, 2022Hurricane Ian highlights the double standard on federal aid as Florida begins to rebuild.
By Adrian Cole - October 05, 2022Proposals from Sens. Rick Scott and Ron Johnson would require Congress to repeatedly authorize funding for Social Security and Medicare.
By Oliver Willis - September 30, 2022The Inflation Reduction Act allows the government to negotiate drug prices and caps prescription drug costs through the Medicare program.
By Oliver Willis - September 28, 2022The Miami event is to be hosted by controversial tech executives Keith Rabois and David Sacks, longtime associates of conservative billionaire Peter Thiel.
By Josh Israel - September 09, 2022Forty-three million Americans owe money on federal student loans.
By Oliver Willis - August 25, 2022The Senate minority leader once scolded Democrats for not taking the nonexistent issue seriously enough.
By Josh Israel - August 23, 2022Every Republican in Congress opposed the law despite its widespread popularity.
By Oliver Willis - August 17, 2022Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes responded, ‘Self-serving, multimillionaire senator Ron Johnson wants to strip working people of the Social Security and Medicare they’ve earned.’
By Josh Israel - August 04, 2022