2025
2025-07-03
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: reversal
Grothman told constituents at a February 2025 town hall that cutting Medicaid 'would be a mistake' and hedged on whether he'd oppose a bill with Medicaid cuts. Five months later, he voted for H.R. 1, which the AFL-CIO, CBO, and constituent analyses projected would enact devastating Medicaid cuts. A constituent letter published July 12, 2025 in USA Today stated Grothman 'promised he wouldn't suppor…
2022
2022-03-17
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: position_evolution
Grothman co-sponsored a bill suspending trade relations with Russia (H.R. 7014) while voting against another bill doing the same thing (H.R. 7108). His rationale — objections to Magnitsky Act amendments he said could target anti-abortion and anti-same-sex-marriage officials — was disputed by human rights experts who noted the amendments were identical to wording in a Trump executive order. Days la…
2020
2020-09-22
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: reversal
Grothman claimed in 2025 to be a 'reliable vote to keep the government running' while attacking Democrats for shutdown brinkmanship, yet voted against a 2020 continuing resolution (H.R. 8337) that kept the government open, citing procedural complaints about insufficient review time. Both involve the same mechanism (a continuing resolution to fund government operations), but the political context s…
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.
