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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Republican US senator facing re-election settles six-year bakery debt

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Roger Marshall, a Republican senator from Kansas, gestures as JD Vance speaks on 14 September 2026, in Olathe, Kansas. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AP

The Republican US senator Roger Marshall says he has finally paid off a bakery debt – after six years and repeated collection attempts reported by a Kansas business that had supplied a large order of treats for a 2020 election watch party.

“We have absolutely no idea how this happened”, the Kansas senator wrote in a social media post containing a screenshot of the payment on a $678.75 invoice from Holly’s Sweet Treats as well as his $1,300 payment. “And we have repaid the bill … double.”

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