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Eric M. Garcia

Washington, D.C.

Senior Washington Correspondent at The Independent

Columnist at MSNBC

DC Bureau Chief @independent. @msnbc columnist. Author: We're Not Broken. @dailytarheel forever. Six-stringer. He/Him. [email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Eric M. Garcia

    AnalysisBetween Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and multiple congressional deaths, Democrats can’t ignore their age problem anymore, Eric Garcia writesThe sun rose literally and metaphorically for House Republicans on Thursday when they finally mustered the votes to pass President Donald Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” The vote came under the tightest of margins, with 215 Republicans voting for the bill. Two Republicans, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio, opposed it and Rep.

  • 2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Eric M. Garcia

    ‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The IndependentEric GarciaWashington, DCPresident Donald Trump’s “One big, beautiful bill,” the legislation passed the House of Representatives early Thursday morning, would ban gender-affirming care for transgender people on Medicaid and the health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.

  • 2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Eric M. Garcia

    Conservatives in the House Rules Committee fold, despite saying: ‘I don't think that's the right way to do business’Eric GarciaWashington, DCFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

  • 2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Eric M. Garcia

    AnalysisAnalysis: The leadership doesn’t like the debt-exploding numbers of Donald Trump’s proposal exposed by the Congressional Budget Office, Eric Garcia writesAs the House Rules Committee’s early-hours hearing on President Donald Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill,” got underway, Rep. Erin Houchin, a Republican from Indiana, asked Jodey Arrnington, the chairman of the Budget Committee, a simple question about the Congressional Budget Office. “Has the CBO ever been wrong?” she asked.

  • 2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | John Bowden |Eric M. Garcia

    Trump made clear he wants the SALT caucus to cut a deal. That could end up saving — or dooming — his ‘big, beautiful bill’Donald Trump made an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as lawmakers in the House Republican caucus continue to bicker over the fate of their budget reconciliation package. A late-night vote is tee’d up to take place in the early hours of Wednesday morning in front of the House Rules Committee, the last step before the bill will likely reach the House floor later in the day.

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