Republican lawmakers have proposed more than a dozen bills to roll back gun safety laws, cut taxes for gun buyers, and offer special protections for the firearm and ammunition industries. Polls have shown that most American adults want stricter gun laws. More than 9,000 Americans have already died from gun violence this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and the United States has...
Rick Scott claims Navy mission was abandoned to ‘train everybody on transgender’
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott criticized the U.S. military on March 17 as insufficiently “lethal,” claiming that top leaders are forcing service members to be too “woke.” As an example, he claimed that a Navy ship tracking a Chinese vessel had had to abandon that mission because of a mandatory training program about transgender people. During an appearance on the...
Possible 2024 GOP Senate candidate wants to ‘break the back’ of public schools
Multimillionaire and potential 2024 Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick said on Monday that public schools are insufficiently pro-America and accused educators of not acting in students’ best interests. McCormick, who lost the 2022 Republican Senate primary to Mehmet Oz, made the comments during an appearance on the Rich Zeoli Show on Philadelphia talk radio station 1210...
DeSantis introduced only one proposal that became law during six years in the House
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is reportedly planning a 2024 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, served in the House of Representatives for three terms from 2013 to 2019. While his official biography touts his advocacy of conservative priorities during that time, it does not mention any legislative accomplishments. A review of legislative records on the Congress.gov website...
New poll finds voters do not want Congress focusing on Biden investigations
Since taking over control of the House of Representatives in January, congressional Republicans have devoted hours of hearing time to investigating President Joe Biden’s administration and his family. A new poll finds that the public wishes they’d instead focus on policies that impact their constituents’ lives. In a nationwide survey of registered voters conducted this week for...
Wisconsin Republican says there can be ‘positive outcomes in rape situations’
A Wisconsin Republican state representative said on Wednesday that there can be “positive outcomes in rape situations,” but that she would allow victims of rape and incest to get abortions. State Rep. Donna Rozar made the comment at a news conference during which she announced that she’s co-authoring a bill that would create rape and incest exceptions to Wisconsin’s 1849...
Extending Trump’s tax cuts would make GOP’s balanced budget promise all but impossible
Republican lawmakers have been claiming they can balance the federal budget in 10 years without any increase in revenues or cuts to defense or vital safety net programs. A new analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office suggests that this would be mathematically impossible. On Tuesday, CBO Director Philip L. Swagel wrote to Senate Budget Committee Chair Sheldon Whitehouse and Senate...
Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany cites hate group leader in lie about immigrants
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany on Tuesday shared on social media a false claim by the president of an anti-immigrant hate group that immigrants are a huge economic burden to the public. Tiffany, currently serving his second term in the U.S. House of Representatives, shared a tweet posted on March 14 by the Twitter account of Washington Times Opinion that said: “Dan Stein: ‘In...
More congressional Republicans have called for cuts to Social Security and Medicare
For weeks, Republican congressional leaders have been trying to convince voters that cuts to popular safety net programs are off the table. But a growing number of members of their caucus are doing their best to contradict their leaders. On Sunday, Sen. John Kennedy told Fox News that the eligibility age for Social Security should be raised for people who have begun paying into the retirement...
The GOP’s extreme bills: Undermining the climate and environment
Two months into the 118th Congress, Republican lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills aimed at undermining environmental protections; canceling spending on climate change infrastructure; and spurring increased oil, gas, and coal drilling. The Republican majorities on the House Committees on Natural Resources and Energy and Commerce advanced an array of anti-environmental bills on March 9...