By Marianna Sotomayor, Jacob Bogage · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Republicans in Congress approved an agreement Thursday to begin implementing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda on taxes and immigration – a deal that could add trillions of dollars to the national debt. The House in a 216 to 214 vote adopted a budget that allows Congress’s GOP majorities […]
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Latino Democrats launch super PAC to tackle party’s problem with key group
By Sabrina Rodriguez · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A pair of influential Latino Democrats are teaming up to launch a new super PAC to mobilize Latino voters in support of Democratic candidates after the party suffered major slippage with the key voting bloc in recent election cycles. Former congressman Tony Cárdenas (D-California) and Chuck Rocha, a longtime […]
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Congress approves agreement to implement Trump’s legislative agenda
By Marianna Sotomayor, Jacob Bogage · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Republicans in Congress approved an agreement Thursday to begin implementing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda on taxes and immigration – a deal that could add trillions of dollars to the national debt. The House in a 216 to 214 vote adopted a budget that allows Congress’s GOP majorities […]
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Congress approves agreement to implement Trump’s legislative agenda
By Marianna Sotomayor, Jacob Bogage · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Republicans in Congress approved an agreement Thursday to begin implementing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda on taxes and immigration – a deal that could add trillions of dollars to the national debt. The House in a 216 to 214 vote adopted a budget that allows Congress’s GOP majorities […]
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Latino Democrats launch super PAC to tackle party’s problem with key group
By Sabrina Rodriguez · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A pair of influential Latino Democrats are teaming up to launch a new super PAC to mobilize Latino voters in support of Democratic candidates after the party suffered major slippage with the key voting bloc in recent election cycles. Former congressman Tony Cárdenas (D-California) and Chuck Rocha, a longtime […]
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Latino Democrats launch super PAC to tackle party’s problem with key group
By Sabrina Rodriguez · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A pair of influential Latino Democrats are teaming up to launch a new super PAC to mobilize Latino voters in support of Democratic candidates after the party suffered major slippage with the key voting bloc in recent election cycles. Former congressman Tony Cárdenas (D-California) and Chuck Rocha, a longtime […]
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Annual Pow Wow returns to Rio Rancho to honor Native American heritage
Rio Rancho Public Schools will host its 17th annual Pow Wow at Rio Rancho High School gym on April 12, from noon to 6 p.m. The district invites the community to join as they celebrate Native American culture and heritage, allowing younger generations to connect and widen their knowledge of these gatherings as well as […]
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East Mountains flashback: Carnuel’s Cerro Huerfano
By Rick Holben, East Mountain Historical Society Cerro Huerfano, or “Orphan Hill,” located near what is now Tramway Boulevard and Copper NE in Albuquerque, is a small rocky outcropping that was designated one of the western boundary markers of the Cañon de Carnué Land Grant in 1819. That year, Governor Facundo Melgares – who served […]
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What would Churchill do?
Just over 120 years ago, Winston Churchill gave a speech in Manchester, railing against protectionist trade policy. He was only four years into his political career in 1904 but he summed up the topic of tariffs with what was, even then, Churchillian drollness: “To think you can make a man richer by putting on a […]
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As the markets fell, Trump putted
By Dan Diamond · The Washington Post (c) 2025 OUTSIDE TRUMP NATIONAL GOLF CLUB, JUPITER, Fla. – The stock markets have lost more than $6 trillion in value since President Donald Trump’s decision to upend the global economic order and impose sweeping tariffs last week.Americans have lost retirement savings. Business leaders are bracing to lose customers and […]