Author: Ramsey Touchberry
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Democrats supercharge court fight after campaign finance ruling
Democrats are hoping to dampen the GOP’s midterm cash advantage after Republicans scored a major win allowing unlimited coordination between political parties and candidates. Republican campaign arms say they can access discounted TV ad rates after the Supreme Court lifted a cap on coordinated expenditures between committees and candidates. Broadcast stations must offer the lowest…
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GOP poised to flex midterm cash advantage after Supreme Court win
Republican Party campaign committees are gearing up to pump tens of millions of dollars into campaigns across the country as they try to protect narrow House and Senate majorities. Thanks to the Supreme Court, they can now coordinate with candidates on all of it. The Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision nixing limits on coordinated spending between…
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House GOP’s expanding Epstein inquiry could set up clash with Trump DOJ
Congressional Republicans could be on a collision course with the Trump administration as the House expands its investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein files. Subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee for testimony from powerful former politicians, predominantly Democrats, that include former President Bill Clinton, are the start of what could become a politically and legally explosive inquiry that ends…
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Republicans brave rowdy town halls to sell Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ law
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…
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Seattle’s ‘Democracy vouchers’ on the ballot amid slate of local elections across country
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…
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Congressional gridlock threatens billions in earmarks for lawmaker pet projects
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…
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Senate Democrats make late push to drive GOP’s Epstein files headache
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…
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GOP Senate hopeful Scott Brown once called DEI a ‘core value.’ Now he says it’s ‘woke’
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…
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Democrats offer tepid government funding support even as GOP eyes spending cuts
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,…
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Deficit hawks face uphill climb after latest DOGE cuts
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…