2025
2025-02-25
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure
Guthrie publicly claimed the One Big Beautiful Bill would 'protect health care for our most vulnerable Americans,' yet the reconciliation framework he voted for and helped negotiate directed $880 billion in cuts largely from Medicaid, the program covering nearly 1 in 3 Kentuckians.
2024
2024-12-31
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: platform_vs_vote
Guthrie introduced legislation to weaken Medicare's ability to negotiate lower drug prices (H.R. 7174) while simultaneously being the top recipient of pharmaceutical industry campaign cash in Congress, having received $507,000 from the industry in the 2024 cycle alone.
2021
2021-12-31
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure
Guthrie publicly characterized student loan forgiveness as a taxpayer-funded 'bribe,' yet his own family business received $4.3 million in federal PPP loan forgiveness — a direct taxpayer subsidy. The Kentucky Democratic Party noted this represented the equivalent of four years of tuition for about 97 Western Kentucky University students.
What this view assembles
- Promises & violations — every documented commitment + each documented break, with primary sources.
- Contradiction pairs — fact-against-fact entries from the contradictions ledger; the "said" appears in its year, the "did" appears in its year.
- Vote-based analyses — for elected officials, every documented case where a vote diverged from a stated commitment.
- Entity events — major dated events recorded against the entity (acquisitions, indictments, appointments, etc.).
This view DOES NOT auto-detect new drift candidates. It surfaces records that are already on file. If you spot an undocumented inversion, the curator workflow (admin) is where to add it.
