By Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs to offset the enormous cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts next year. Among the […]
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Reports on Elections and Voting in New Mexico.
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Trump allies eye overhauling Medicaid, food stamps in tax legislation
By Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs to offset the enormous cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts next year. Among the […]
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Kari Lake settles election defamation case brought by Arizona official
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – A year-long defamation case against Kari Lake, who falsely blamed a local Arizona election official for her 2022 defeat for governor and has sowed distrust in American election systems, has been settled. The details of the settlement are confidential, according to two people familiar […]
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Kari Lake settles election defamation case brought by Arizona official
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – A year-long defamation case against Kari Lake, who falsely blamed a local Arizona election official for her 2022 defeat for governor and has sowed distrust in American election systems, has been settled. The details of the settlement are confidential, according to two people familiar […]
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Ruben Gallego has a blueprint to win Latino men. Will Democrats listen?
By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – Ruben Gallego embodies the kind of voter that Democrats struggled to keep this election cycle. A Latino with working-class roots, he won his Senate race in a battleground state that Donald Trump flipped and will become the first Latino to represent Arizona in the upper […]
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Ruben Gallego has a blueprint to win Latino men. Will Democrats listen?
By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – Ruben Gallego embodies the kind of voter that Democrats struggled to keep this election cycle. A Latino with working-class roots, he won his Senate race in a battleground state that Donald Trump flipped and will become the first Latino to represent Arizona in the upper […]
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Trump taps North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead Interior Department
By Maxine Joselow, Evan Halper, Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to lead the Interior Department, a role overseeing roughly 500 million acres of federal land and more than a billion acres offshore that will be key to his plans to […]
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Trump taps North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead Interior Department
By Maxine Joselow, Evan Halper, Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to lead the Interior Department, a role overseeing roughly 500 million acres of federal land and more than a billion acres offshore that will be key to his plans to […]
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Speaker Johnson moves to block release of ethics report on Matt Gaetz
By Meryl Kornfield, Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Friday that he will urge the House Ethics Committee to suppress its report into former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and block the Senate Judiciary Committee from viewing the investigation, an unusual intervention that could shape a divisive nomination fight. “I’m […]
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Speaker Johnson moves to block release of ethics report on Matt Gaetz
By Meryl Kornfield, Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Friday that he will urge the House Ethics Committee to suppress its report into former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and block the Senate Judiciary Committee from viewing the investigation, an unusual intervention that could shape a divisive nomination fight. “I’m […]