Ramsey Touchberry

Senate border deal reignites conservative fury against McConnell, calls for his ouster

Conservative senators fumed against their leadership Tuesday, accusing Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of betraying Republican values over the chamber's bipartisan border deal.

February 6, 2024

Schumer dares GOP to vote against border bill: ‘No time for grandstanding’

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer vowed Tuesday to push ahead with a vote on the bipartisan border security deal and national security spending bill and lashed out at Republicans who are poised to tank the bill.

February 6, 2024

Senate border bill hits wall of bipartisan blowback

The walls are closing in from both sides of the aisle on the Senate border security bill, as liberals and conservatives say they can't stomach the policy changes.

February 5, 2024

GOP Sen. Mike Lee accuses Republican leadership of ‘disqualifying betrayal’ over border deal

Sen. Mike Lee slapped Senate GOP leaders with charges of "disqualifying betrayal" for reaching an agreement with Democrats on new southern border policies.

February 5, 2024

Speaker Johnson warns McConnell: Senate border deal a ‘waste of time’

House Republican leaders said Monday the bipartisan Senate deal on southern border security has zero chance of becoming law.

February 5, 2024

Steve Daines, chair of Senate GOP’s campaign arm, blasts border security deal

Sen. Steve Daines, the Montana Republican whose job is to get Senate GOP candidates elected, came out in opposition Monday to a southern border security deal with Democrats tied to a $118 billion aid package with money for Ukraine and Israel.

February 5, 2024

Border deal expands legal immigration, new powers to expel illegal immigrants

Senators revealed a new border security deal Sunday that would give President Biden new powers to block illegal immigrants at the border, though only after the flow averages more than 4,000 migrants a day.

February 4, 2024

Senators reach for border deal, House prepares impeachment in momentous week for immigration

Senators were rushing to finalize a deal to stiffen border security Sunday evening ahead of what is shaping up as the most momentous week in immigration policy in Washington in nearly four decades.

February 4, 2024

House Intel chair questions Speaker Johnson’s support of Ukraine aid

The House Intelligence Committee chairman said Sunday he was "very concerned" about Speaker Mike Johnson's decision to move forward with standalone aid for Israel that excludes more money for Ukraine.

February 4, 2024

Lindsey Graham praises bipartisan border deal despite fury from Trump, House Republicans

A bipartisan agreement to beef up security along the southern border has a conservative ally despite staunch opposition from Donald Trump and House Republicans: Sen. Lindsey Graham.

February 4, 2024

Nikki Haley: Trump ‘playing politics’ by opposing bipartisan border deal

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday accused her competitor, former President Donald Trump, of using a top issue with voters as a political plaything: the crisis at the southern border.

February 4, 2024

Donald Trump name-checks potential vice president picks

Former President Donald Trump hinted Sunday that two prominent Republicans are on his shortlist for vice-presidential running mates.

February 4, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejects idea that Trump killed border deal: ‘I am calling the shots’

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the suggestion that Donald Trump should receive credit for the impending demise of a bipartisan deal in the Senate for a southern border security bill.

February 4, 2024

Senate Republicans lukewarm at best on House GOP plan to impeach Mayorkas

Senate Republicans aren't convinced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas deserves to be impeached and removed from office.

February 2, 2024

Senate to vote next week on long-awaited border security bill and aid for Israel, Ukraine

The Senate will vote next week on a $110 billion national security package sought by President Biden that includes new border security provisions and aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, after months of negotiations on the contentious issue.

February 1, 2024

N.Y. Republicans get their shot at tax-deduction bill after minor rebellion against Speaker Johnson

New York Republicans scored a victory on Thursday when a House panel advanced a bill that would allow some married couples to deduct more of last year's state and local taxes, but only after staging a minor rebellion against Speaker Mike Johnson.

February 1, 2024

U.S. Capitol Police decline charges against Cardin staffer who filmed Senate sex video

The U.S. Capitol Police said Thursday that they will not bring charges against a former congressional staffer who was filmed having sex in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room in December.

February 1, 2024

House passes bipartisan bill to cut business taxes, boost child tax credit

A bipartisan bill to slash taxes for businesses and enhance the child tax credit is one step closer to becoming law.

January 31, 2024

Mitch McConnell: It’s now or never for Senate border security talks

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that after months of negotiations with Democrats on beefing up border security, the time has come to show the bill text and take action.

January 31, 2024

Too little, too late: Biden to travel to East Palestine, Ohio, nearly a year after toxic train crash

President Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, in February after nearly a full year of fierce criticism for not visiting the region to view the aftermath of a train derailment that released toxic chemicals into the air and ground.

January 31, 2024