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Two former congressional candidates, Julie Oliver and Mike Siegel, are hoping to help Democrats learn the lessons of 2020 with a new group called Ground Game Texas. ....
Texas members of Congress demand reversal of CMS waiver rescission Share this: In stark contrast to Democratic calls to expand Medicaid in the wake of Texas’s loss of its Medicaid 1115 waiver, the Texas Republican Congressional Delegation wrote an open letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday asking them to reverse the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)’s waiver rescission. The letter claims the rescission compromises Texas’s future plans for Medicaid funding and decreases trust between the state and CMS. “More than four million Texans, including half of all children in the State, depend on the stability of the State’s Medicaid program for quality health care for themselves and their families. Revoking the extension of Texas’ 1115 Waiver pulls the rug out from beneath these patients and puts their health care at risk. Hospitals and providers in the State have been pushed to the brink and stretched thinner than ever ....
Credit: Twitter Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A Republican candidate in the special election to replace the late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, is facing intense backlash and has lost two of her biggest supporters after saying she does not want Chinese immigrants in the United States. The comments by Sery Kim, a Korean American who served in the Small Business Administration under President Donald Trump, prompted California U.S. Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel to rescind their endorsements of her Friday. Young Kim and Steel are the first Korean American GOP women to serve in Congress. ....
Members of the House depart after the first session of the 117th Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, Jan. 3, 2021. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Pool via REUTERS Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON - Detractors call them “pork,” invoking the cliche of a local congressman bringing home the bacon. Advocates call them “community project funding.” Whatever the appellation, the debate over whether Congress can ethically bring back earmarks a maligned spending practice banished a decade ago is fueling debate among Texans in Congress. For some members, earmarks bring to mind an ugly past that landed one of their own in prison. Others see reviving the practice as one way to return to a functional, maybe even bipartisan, political system. ....
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