Ramsey Touchberry
Articles by Ramsey Touchberry
Asa Hutchinson says Trump is buoyed by federal investigations: ‘He’s played the victim’
Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson argues Donald Trump's legal woes are boosting the former president's bid for the GOP's presidential nomination. Published May 7, 2023
Top House Democrat says GOP passed ‘ransom note,’ not a budget, as default looms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Republicans' passage of legislation to raise the debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars in spending over the next decade was akin to a "ransom note." Published May 7, 2023
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema bats down joining GOP: ‘You don’t go from one broken party to another’
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona independent who last year ditched the Democratic Party, ruled out Sunday the idea that she'd ever join the GOP. Published May 7, 2023
Republicans pour millions into ads against Manchin over Inflation Reduction Act
Republicans are reaching into their campaign coffers to dump millions of dollars into ads criticizing Sen. Joe Manchin III's central role in passing the Inflation Reduction Act, even as the West Virginia Democrat has soured on the tax-and-climate spending law he wrote. Published May 4, 2023
Senate Republicans push bid to streamline energy projects in counter to Manchin’s proposal
Republican senators unveiled revamped legislation Thursday to fast-track the approval of new energy projects currently hamstrung by environmental hurdles, rivaling a similar measure from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III. Published May 4, 2023
Democrats join Republicans to reverse Biden’s solar policy and punish China
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to reimpose Chinese solar tariffs suspended by the Biden administration, delivering the latest bipartisan rebuke to President Biden's regulatory agenda. Published May 3, 2023
Oklahoma the latest state to boot BlackRock, other firms over ESG investment
The world's largest financial institutions were blacklisted Wednesday by Oklahoma from doing business with state entities over their support of the climate change-focused investment strategy ESG. Published May 3, 2023
Dems struggle to win over rebels as Senate readies bipartisan blow to Biden on Chinese solar panels
Senate Democrats are making a last-ditch effort to stop fellow Democrats from delivering a bipartisan rebuke of President Biden by voting to reimpose Chinese solar tariffs that were lifted by the president. Published May 2, 2023
State officials slam Biden’s good-credit mortgage fees for imposing a ‘middle-class tax hike’
The Biden administration's new mortgage rules that will take a bite out of homebuyers with good credit to subsidize bad-credit borrowers took effect on Monday as officials from more than two dozen states pleaded with President Biden to reverse course. Published May 1, 2023
House Republicans accuse Dems of ‘shamelessly lying’ about veterans’ benefits under debt limit bill
House Republicans say President Biden and Democrats are lying about cuts to services for veterans under legislation recently passed in the chamber to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default on the national debt. Published April 30, 2023
House Democrat floats Biden-McConnell meeting to resolve debt limit standoff
Rep. Ro Khanna suggested Sunday that the key to resolving the standoff on raising the debt ceiling could be President Biden sitting down with one of his old Senate colleagues: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Published April 30, 2023
RNC Chair McDaniel says lack of unity led to 2022 losses: ‘We need to come together’
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel on Sunday cited poor party unity for the GOP's lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections in a cycle in which Republicans were set to trounce Democrats. Published April 30, 2023
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Biden ‘can start negotiating tomorrow’ on budget cuts but not debt limit
Sen. Bernard Sanders endorsed Sunday the idea of President Biden coming to the negotiating table over federal spending cuts but said anything other than a clean debt limit raise to avert a default on the national debt should be off the table. Published April 30, 2023
Time for Biden to ‘get off the sidelines’ and ‘start negotiating,’ House GOP leader says
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Sunday that it's time for President Biden to come to the negotiating table in the wake of House Republicans passing a bill to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. Published April 30, 2023
Senate Democrat on Biden’s reelection amid age, verbal stumblings: ‘Compare him to the alternative’
Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, co-chair of President Biden's reelection campaign, said Sunday that Americans should look past Mr. Biden's age and verbal stumbles because of the Republican he's most likely to face on the debate stage: former President Donald Trump. Published April 30, 2023
House bipartisan deal would hit Biden, punish China with solar panel tariffs
The House passed a measure Friday to reimpose tariffs on Chinese solar panels paused by the Biden administration, dealing a bipartisan blow to President Biden in an effort to crack down on a foreign adversary. Published April 28, 2023
Democrats anxious over default, but refuse to abandon Biden’s no-negotiation pledge on debt limit
Congressional Democrats are anxious about a potential default on the national debt, but are sticking with President Biden in his refusal to negotiate with House Republicans on cutting spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Published April 27, 2023
Chamber of Commerce breaks with GOP to oppose repeal of Dems’ green tax credits in debt limit bill
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobbying group historically aligned with conservatives, said Wednesday it does not support House Republicans' efforts to repeal Democrats' clean-energy tax credits in a GOP proposal to raise the debt ceiling. Published April 26, 2023
Pulled pork: Revised House GOP debt limit bill rescinds $200M for local park in Pelosi’s district
Among the last-minute changes to House Republicans' legislation to raise the debt ceiling that they hoped to pass Wednesday is an amendment clawing back $200 million for a park in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district. Published April 26, 2023
GOP slams good-credit penalty for homebuyers, demands reversal of higher-rate rule
Senate Republicans are taking aim at a "shortsighted" Biden rule that would force homebuyers with good credit scores to pay higher mortgage rates and fees to subsidize people with riskier credit ratings who are also in the market to buy houses. Published April 26, 2023
