Will Weissert
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Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Dems
WASHINGTON -- One side is energized by the prospect of the greatest expansion of government support since the New Deal nearly a century ago. The other is fearful about dramatically expanding Washington's reach at an enormous cost. → Read More
Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Dems
Democrats are taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress. → Read More
Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Dems
WASHINGTON (AP) — One side is energized by the prospect of the greatest expansion of government support since the New Deal nearly a century ago. The other is fearful about dramatically expanding Washington's reach at an enormous cost. They're all Democrats. Yet each side is taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3. 5 trillion spending bill through Congress. The party is again… → Read More
Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Democrats
They’re all Democrats. Yet each side is taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress. → Read More
LIVE: Biden remarks on economy, middle class
They’re all Democrats. Yet each side is taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress. → Read More
Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Democrats
They’re all Democrats. Yet each side is taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress. → Read More
Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Dems
They’re all Democrats. Yet each side is taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress. → Read More
Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Dems
They’re all Democrats. Yet each side is taking vastly different approaches to guiding the massive $3.5 trillion spending bill through Congress. → Read More
Budget bill reopens moderate vs. progressive divide for Dems
One side is energized by the prospect of the greatest expansion of government support since the New Deal nearly a century ago. The other is fearful. → Read More
House Democrats post record August fundraising ahead of 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The campaign organization aiming to maintain Democratic control of the House in the 2022 midterm races raised $10 million last month, its best August haul ever during a year without a national election. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says that nearly 250,000 grassroots donors provided $6. 6 million, accounting for two-thirds of its monthly total, according to… → Read More
House Democrats post record August fundraising ahead of 2022
The campaign organization aiming to maintain Democratic control of the House in the 2022 midterm races raised $10 million last month, its best August haul ever during a year without a national election. → Read More
Texas GOP bets on hard right turn amid changing demographics
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans in America's largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan "Keep Texas Red," a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics. Now, those population transformations have arrived, with the 2020 census confirming that the state got bigger, more suburban and far more diverse. Yet a more… → Read More
Bernie Sanders sells big government's virtues in red states
Bernie Sanders has long argued that steep federal spending and bigger government can improve the lives of working class Americans and win back the kinds of disaffected, largely white voters who flocked to Donald Trump → Read More
Bernie Sanders: Trump voters will back taxing the rich for massive social spending
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders has long argued, but not proved, that his big government populism can win over voters in the largely white, rural communities that flocked to Republican Donald Trump in recent elections. Now as the chief Senate shepherd of a $3. → Read More
Bernie Sanders sets out to sell big government in red states
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders has long argued, but not proved, that his big government populism can win over voters in the largely white, rural communities that flocked to Republican Donald Trump in recent elections. Now as the chief Senate shepherd of a $3. 5 trillion budget proposal, Sanders believes he has another chance to test the theory. FILE - In this July 21, 2021 photo, Sen. Bernie… → Read More
Veterans are prized recruits as congressional candidates
With midterm election season rapidly approaching, Republicans and Democrats have something in common when it comes to recruiting candidates they hope will deliver majorities in Congress: a preference for military veterans. → Read More
Veterans are prized recruits as congressional candidates
With midterm election season rapidly approaching, Republicans and Democrats have something in common when it comes to recruiting candidates they hope will deliver majorities in Congress: a preference for military → Read More
GOP hits Biden despite divides over Afghanistan withdrawal
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden announced he would stick to his... → Read More
GOP hits Biden despite divides over Afghanistan withdrawal
The fall of the Afghan government and the Taliban’s swift return to power have, at least for now, reunited Republicans in criticism of Biden. → Read More
GOP hits Biden despite divides over Afghanistan withdrawal
The fall of the Afghan government and the Taliban’s swift return to power have, at least for now, reunited Republicans in criticism of Biden. → Read More