Cristina Corujo
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Bori 🇵🇷 in DC • @CBSNews digital journalist covering Congress 🎥 • Prior: @abc @washingtonpost @wapatv • Opinions & RT are my own
“El año pasa volando pero este mes siempre se va lento,” that’s how the new Bad Bunny song called ‘Una Velita’ starts. It talks about the fear Puerto Ricans go through every hurricane season especially in Sept. after Hurricane María slammed the island 7 years ago. THREAD 🧵
Schumer on the floor: "Leader Thune can't have it both ways. If Leader Thune wants to talk about bipartisanship, he should focus on keeping his side of the street clean first, because Donald Trump and Russell Vought have made clear they want to continue launching partisan…
This amendment was adopted by voice vote
House Dems want to keep the Space Shuttle Discovery in the National Air & Space Museum in VA, not transfer it to Texas as mandated under OBBB.
Puerto Rico's government sues private power company as chronic outages damage appliances apnews.com/article/puerto…
The House will leave town for the August work period on Wednesday following votes. Thursday votes cancelled.
WHCA President @weijia responds to the White House removing the @WSJ from POTUS upcoming trip to Scotland over Epstein story. “This attempt by the White House to punish a media outlet whose coverage it does not like is deeply troubling, and it defies the First Amendment."
CBO estimates that the deficit will increase by $3.4 trillion from 2025-2034 amid the “one big beautiful bill.”
The House passes Trump’s $9billion rescissions package in a 216-213 vote, sending it to the President’s desk. This package, which cuts spending on foreign aid and public broadcasting, was opposed by all House Democrats and two GOP House members (Turner and Fitzpatrick.)
BREAKING: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "The Late Show" franchise will end in May 2026, CBS and Colbert announce. cbsn.ws/45a1I9N
Senate Majority Whip Barrasso when asked if August recess could get delayed “if the Democrats continue to want to drag their feet and slow down the process, then they may need to be here in August.” Barrasso added “this is an intention to obstruct the getting people in place to…
The Senate passes the $9 billion rescissions package in the 12th hour of the vote-a-rama in a 51-48 vote. Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against the package. This spending cuts package requested by President Trump now heads back to the House.
List of the final votes of this vote-a-rama!
Votes scheduled: The Senate will now proceed to up to seven roll call votes in relation to the following in relation to Cal. #114, H.R.4, Rescissions Act of 2025 : 1. Shaheen amendment #2898 2. Ossoff amendment #2896 3. Merkley amendment #2863 4. Kim motion to recommit (Veterans)…
The Senate started a vote-a-rama on the rescissions package nearly at 2pm this afternoon. It’s 11:24pm & they are still in the midst of the vote-a-rama. We are not sure until when it will last. They are set to be in session tomorrow even after the vote-a-rama ends.
Meanwhile in the Senate … Dems and GOP trying to reach an agreement on a final tranche of amendments to close out the vote-a-rama and move to final passage of the $9 billion rescissions package. The Senate floor is currently at a standstill
EXCLUSIVE: Despite vow to remove the worst offenders, ICE data shows less than 1% of deportees had murder convictions. Of the approx 100k deported since Jan, 70,583 were convicted criminals - but most were traffic/immigration offenses @margbrennan @CBSNews cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
Speaker Johnson asked by @CHueyBurns if the President Trump can fire Jerome Powell: “Uh I’m really not sure…”