By Kevin Freking | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The House passed a $460 billion package of spending bills Wednesday that would keep money flowing to key federal agencies through the remainder of the budget year. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. Lawmakers are negotiating a second … Read more
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told Colorado voters at a rally Tuesday that this year’s presidential election is about getting the country “back on track” — from securing the border and focusing on the basics in education to preventing wars. The Republican hopeful characterized herself as the best chance to do that during her … Read more
By Clare Foran, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett | CNN There is still no clear path to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week, with just five days until Congress runs into a key funding deadline. Lawmakers had hoped to release the text of a bipartisan spending deal Sunday … Read more
President Biden on Wednesday said that several foreign leaders have told him he has to beat former President Trump, the likely GOP nominee, in November. “As I walk out of meetings, a head of state will find an excuse to come up close…and say ‘you’ve got to win,’” Biden recalled at a fundraiser in San … Read more
Facing a second impeachment vote this week, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas denounced the GOP’s accusations against him and claimed that only Congress can fix what he described as a “crisis” on the U.S.-Mexico border. “They’re baseless allegations, and that’s why I’m not really distracted by them,” Mayorkas said in a Sunday interview with … Read more
Colorado’s unaffiliated voters can continue to participate in Republican primary elections, a federal judge ruled Friday, in the latest blow to the state GOP’s attempts to close its races to independents. The ruling comes more than five months after the Colorado Republican Party filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate Proposition 108, the 2016 ballot measure … Read more
The money train kept rolling for U.S. House hopeful Adam Frisch in the last quarter of 2023. But with erstwhile opponent Lauren Boebert leaving the 3rd Congressional District to run in the 4th, the fundraising dynamics across Colorado’s two largest districts are in for a shakeup. Boebert, the 3rd District’s incumbent, raised $540,000 between Oct. … Read more
The pundit class is saying it’s over. Donald Trump has been anointed “The Presumptive.” Thanks to his victory this week in the New Hampshire primary—a state in which his 2024 archrival, Nikki Haley, placed much of her political capital—Trump trumped her. I’d contend that Haley, however, had a more-than-respectable second-place showing. Going head-to-head with an … Read more
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race for the Republican nomination in the US, something that appeared to increase the chances that former US President Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee. Of course, a lot can happen in the coming months. What is clear … Read more
Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine vetoed a bill Friday that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors, bucking his party as it seeks to make fear-mongering about transgender youth central to its 2024 election strategy. “Were I to sign House Bill 68, or were House Bill 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying that … Read more
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