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Trump’s latest funding cuts dampen bipartisan dealmaking in 2026

Dec 30, 2025

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Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner

Senate Republicans are optimistic about bipartisanship beyond healthcare next year, despite the looming midterm elections, but some of President Donald Trump’s latest actions could thwart the appetite for deal-making. The administration is dismantling a federal climate center and halting construction of offshore wind projects, drawing ire from Democrats who say the moves intentionally undercut clean…
U.S. Senate Ag Committee’s farm bill draft omits SNAP changes

Jun 9, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

The U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee published a draft Friday of its version of the farm bill that funds programs such as food stamps and farm subsidies. But notable in its absence – as compared to the House version rejected on May 18 – is an omission of major changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
‘You are the swamp’: Conservative leaders demand Mitch McConnell step aside, cite failure to support Darryl Glenn

Oct 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A group of nationally prominent conservative organizers on Wednesday called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senate leaders to resign, charging they’ve failed to pass any substantive legislation even as the GOP controls every branch of government. “Republicans were given full control of the federal government,” the leading conservatives wrote in a…
Primary opponent, GOP strategist warn past clients could haunt Democrat Jason Crow

Aug 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Will voters care if Democratic congressional candidate Jason Crow represented some unsavory characters early in his career as an attorney? It’s a serious vulnerability, says one of his primary opponents, and a veteran Republican strategist who won two statewide races in Colorado thanks to similar attacks on another Democrat agrees. Crow’s campaign team, however, says…
Obama, Pence to Capitol as health care overhaul fight begins

Jan 4, 2017

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Alan Fram

Donald Trump warned congressional Republicans on Wednesday against letting Democrats dodge blame for problems with President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, even as the GOP-led Congress takes initial steps toward dismantling the law. “Massive increases of ObamaCare will take place this year and Dems are to blame for the mess,” the president-elect said in three…
Mail ballots credited for Colorado’s top spot in national voter turnout

Dec 1, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

Colorado voters turned out at higher rates than all but two other states in the Nov. 8 general election, with most credit given to mail-in ballots. The 2016 general election was the first presidential election year with mail-in ballots used across Colorado, which had more than 71 percent of voters mark and return their ballots.…
The Hot Sheet, March 16, 2016

Mar 16, 2016

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Jared Wright

VOL. 01 NO. 44 | MARCH 16, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Super Tuesday Round 3 is complete. Marco Rubio‘s biggest mistake: Rich Beeson, “The days of having to have 50 field staffers and 25 offices are done. We can have a…

john thune

Trump’s latest funding cuts dampen bipartisan dealmaking in 2026

U.S. Senate Ag Committee’s farm bill draft omits SNAP changes

‘You are the swamp’: Conservative leaders demand Mitch McConnell step aside, cite failure to support Darryl Glenn

Primary opponent, GOP strategist warn past clients could haunt Democrat Jason Crow

Obama, Pence to Capitol as health care overhaul fight begins

Mail ballots credited for Colorado’s top spot in national voter turnout

The Hot Sheet, March 16, 2016