A legislative panel on Tuesday advanced the state’s supplemental budget, but not before slashing roughly $235 million from Gov. Mark Gordon’s recommendations via cuts to wildfire recovery, energy
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I was surprised after I returned home from the capitol on Friday to find Wyoming news outlets reporting that the Freedom Caucus had succeeded in its “Five and Dime” plan
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrived at this week’s House Republican retreat with hopes of uniting the fractious GOP conference around a plan to pass President Trump’s agenda — but instead,
Ten years ago this month, nine conservative House Republicans, frustrated with the party’s leadership, met at the conference’s retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania, to form their own caucus. “The original working title was the Reasonable Nutjob Caucus,
A universal school voucher bill passed through the Wyoming House of Representatives would make all families eligible for private school grants, paid for by the state, with little to no assessment or certification requirements.
A new rift has opened in the House Republican caucus over how best to carry out President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Make America Great Again” agenda. Conservative hardliners left the House GOP’s annual issues conference this week arguing leadership hasn’t found a path forward to effectively overhaul the federal government.
Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”
House Republicans came here to President Donald Trump’s resort to map out what’s ahead for their legislative agenda. The big takeaway: It’s looking treacherous. Despite progress on the stated goal of the three-day retreat — coalescing around a fiscal blueprint for their vast party-line agenda — what they saw wasn’t pretty: Key strategic disputes continued to fester inside the GOP ranks,
After fours years of criticizing growing government deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own — how to offset the multitrillion-dollar cost of