
Reena Diamante
Texas Political Reporter at Spectrum News Austin
Texas Political Reporter at Spectrum News Texas
🇵🇭🇺🇸 Washington Correspondent covering Texas politics + national news for @SpectrumNewsDC @SpectrumNews1TX. Previously @NY1. Filipina Immigrant. #VamosRafa
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1 week ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Reena Diamante
WASHINGTON — Texas could soon get billions of dollars from Washington for Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative. Tucked into the GOP tax and spending bill that narrowly passed the House last week is a provision to reimburse states for border security costs. It would repay Texas for policing the border, constructing border barriers and for busing more than 100,000 migrants to New York, Los Angeles and other cities run by Democrats. What You Need To KnowWhile Gov.
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2 weeks ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Reena Diamante
WASHINGTON — On Capitol Hill, hardline Republicans from Texas withdrew their objections to a massive package of tax and spending cuts sought by President Donald Trump, narrowly allowing the measure to pass the U.S. House. Although conservatives brokered some changes to the final package, the bill does not include some of their biggest demands.
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3 weeks ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Reena Diamante
WASHINGTON - A Republican congressman from Texas who once chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee says he believes President Donald Trump is realizing "who the real [Vladimir] Putin is" after Russia killed civilians in two recent airstrikes in Ukraine as the Trump administration was trying to broker a peace deal to end the war there.
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3 weeks ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Reena Diamante
WASHINGTON — The deportation of a family in Texas is raising new concerns that the Trump administration is illegally removing American-citizen children along with parents who are undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration says such children are sent out of the country only when their parents ask that their children be able to leave with them. What You Need To KnowAttorneys for Denisse Parra Vargas say Homeland Security should have never deported her along with her children.
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3 weeks ago |
spectrumlocalnews.com | Reena Diamante
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Secretary faced tough questions on Capitol Hill this month about President Donald Trump’s push for the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, as lawmakers from South Texas called for additional federal spending on border security. What You Need To KnowPresident Donald Trump is proposing a $175 billion budget for Homeland Security in the next fiscal year and Homeland Security Sec.
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