Ramsey Touchberry
Congressional Reporter at Washington Examiner
Senate snob for @dcexaminer. Alum: @WashTimes, @Newsweek, @WUFTNews. @UFJSchool 🐊 FL native. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Ramsey Touchberry
President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax bill is starting to shrink in size as the strict rules of the Senate become a roadblock to some of its provisions. Language is already being struck by the Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan referee on what is and is not allowed under the filibuster-skirting process of reconciliation. Core elements of the bill, a set of tax, border, and defense priorities, are expected to stay ahead of a vote next week.
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Ramsey Touchberry
President Donald Trump wants to give back $9.4 billion in federal spending to Congress that it has already approved. But it’s proving to be an uphill battle with Senate Republicans. Some GOP senators don't want to claw back funds for certain programs, including $1.1 billion to public broadcasting and $900 million in foreign aid for global health, despite a party-wide search for cost-cutting measures across the federal government.
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Ramsey Touchberry |Kaelan Deese |Marisa Schultz
Senate Republicans will put the focus back on former President Joe Biden with their first hearing Wednesday on his cognitive status while in office and whether ex-White House officials shielded his health decline. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony from former first-term Trump administration officials, including Sean Spicer, while Democrats will boycott proceedings they deride as a “political undertaking” unworthy of the panel’s time.
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Ramsey Touchberry |Kaelan Deese
Senate Republicans' first public hearing into former President Joe Biden’s health on Wednesday laid the groundwork for a broader investigation into whether the White House concealed his condition and unlawfully authorized executive actions in his name.
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1 week ago |
denvergazette.com | Ramsey Touchberry
Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee will skip a hearing on Wednesday held by Republicans about the alleged “cover-up” by ex-White House officials to shield former President Joe Biden’s supposed cognitive decline while in office, the Washington Examiner has learned.
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