Em Luetkemeyer

1 week ago | notus.org | Ursula Perano |Em Luetkemeyer

House Republicans painstakingly crafted a reconciliation bill that could hold different factions of the GOP conference together, delicately balancing the demands of conservatives with vulnerable Republicans from blue states. The Senate is about to disregard all of that.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Jasmine Wright |Violet Jira |Em Luetkemeyer |Torrence Banks

President Donald Trump used a set of well-worn tactics to get the House to pass his “big, beautiful bill”: sugar in the form of praise and salt in the form of threats of primary challenges to any Republican holdouts. But the next phase of getting his massive domestic policy bill passed could be harder, simply because Republican senators aren’t quite the same as Republican House members. They don’t have the same blind loyalty to the president.

2 weeks ago | timesofsandiego.com | Anna Kramer |Ursula Perano |Em Luetkemeyer

Senate Republicans voted 51-44 to overturn California’s electric-vehicle mandate via the Congressional Review Act on Thursday, defying the Government Accountability Office and the Senate parliamentarian.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Anna Kramer |Ursula Perano |Em Luetkemeyer

Senate Republicans voted 51-44 to overturn California’s electric-vehicle mandate via the Congressional Review Act on Thursday, defying the Government Accountability Office and the Senate parliamentarian.

2 weeks ago | notus.org | Ursula Perano |Em Luetkemeyer

House Republicans aren’t on the same page on Medicaid cuts. But they appear to be reading from an entirely different book than the Senate — and maybe even President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, Trump told House Republicans not to “fuck” with Medicaid in the reconciliation bill. It should have been a rough wake-up call for conservatives, who want Medicaid rollbacks to pay for their newfound policy initiatives, though many seemed to be interpreting Trump’s comments in creative ways.