Author: Ramsey Touchberry

Republicans are trying to break through the heckling and jeers that have become commonplace at town halls as they sell the merits of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” law. Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE), who represents a comfortably red district, became the latest lawmaker to face shouts and angry chants Monday as Republicans spend the August…

Voters in states across the country head to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in local elections for candidates and on certain ballot initiatives, including whether to roll back so-called “democracy vouchers” in Seattle for publicly financed campaigns. The first-of-its-kind program came about in 2017 after Seattle voters approved a citizen-led initiative to boost election…

A fast-approaching government funding deadline means a new federal budget, and lawmakers can secure funding for community projects back home — or so they hope. But so-called “earmarks,” formally known as congressionally directed spending, are once again on the chopping block unless Congress can find the bipartisan muster to pass a new fiscal 2026 budget that begins…

Democrats in the Senate are picking up the baton from their colleagues in the House to keep the Jeffrey Epstein saga in the news cycle and stoke GOP divisions. A small group of Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), is invoking a nearly century-old law to try to obtain the Epstein files…

EXCLUSIVE — As leader of New England Law in Boston, Scott Brown touted diversity, equity, and inclusion as a “core value” and “top priority” of the institution. Now a Republican Senate candidate in New Hampshire, Brown assails DEI as “woke.” In an “unlisted” 2021 YouTube video unearthed by the Washington Examiner, which is not publicly…

Senate Democrats are reluctantly offering Republicans vital votes to advance government funding measures despite a lack of GOP assurances that partisan methods won’t later be used to slash bipartisan spending deals. However, some Democrats suggest it could backfire to so freely extend bipartisanship at a time GOP lawmakers preview more cuts using only Republican votes,…

It took weeks of vote-wrangling for congressional Republicans to near final passage of $9 billion in DOGE-inspired cuts, or only 0.10% of the $7 trillion budget. The arduous saga, filled with centrist complaints and some last-minute deal-cutting, doesn’t bode well for conservatives who have their sights on far more ambitious efforts under President Donald Trump, who has…

President Donald Trump’s monthslong saga to fill his remaining Cabinet post of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations may soon be over. Nominee Mike Waltz is set to receive his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Foreign Affairs Committee, more than two months after he was picked for the role. Waltz’s reentry into the spotlight…

Republican defense hawks are riding high after a series of events abroad prompted President Donald Trump to lean away from his more quasi-isolationist roots in his first term. His bombing of Iran, increased aggression toward Russia, and resuming U.S. arms to Ukraine likely wasn’t the “America First” foreign policy agenda many Republicans were expecting. But…