Susan Combs, a former Texas legislator and statewide official, will be named acting assistant secretary of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, the Austin American-Statesman reported Thursday.
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Congress
Donald Trump nominates Texan Ronny Jackson to lead Department of Veterans Affairs
The announcement comes after weeks of speculation that another Texan — Energy Secretary Rick Perry — might land the post.
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Congress
Trump signs $1.3 trillion spending bill despite veto threat over DACA, border wall funding
President Donald Trump reversed course hours after threatening to veto a must-pass spending bill because it did nothing to address the fate of young undocumented immigrants and did not fully fund his border wall.
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Politics
Texas Republicans warn Trump against firing Mueller
Leaders in the U.S. Senate, including one of the two senators from Texas, have spent the past two days issuing a warning to President Donald Trump: Do not fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Ted Cruz says Cambridge Analytica told his presidential campaign its data use was legal
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign relied on Cambridge Analytica for over $5.8 million in services, according to federal records. The data firm is now under fire for allegedly improperly harvesting information from Facebook.
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Trump asked his White House staff to sign nondisclosure agreements. Here’s what a Texan on his campaign signed.
Amid reports that President Donald Trump asked senior White House officials to sign nondisclosure agreements, The Texas Tribune received a copy of an NDA Trump asked a former Texas campaign staffer to sign in 2016. Take a look.
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Analysis: For Texas Republicans, winning in November might mean outrunning Trump
Lots of Texas Republicans outperformed Donald Trump on the 2016 ballot, and many of them wouldn’t be in office if they hadn’t. In a presidential midterm year, overcoming the president’s shortcomings might be the key to re-election.
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Politics
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a Texan, leaving Trump’s Cabinet
The Wichita Falls native’s departure comes after a year of escalating tensions between Tillerson and President Donald Trump.
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Texan Katrina Pierson to rejoin Trump campaign as a senior adviser
President Donald Trump has asked former national campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson to rejoin the Trump Campaign as a senior adviser. Before joining Trump’s orbit in 2015, Pierson had been a fixture in Texas Tea Party politics.
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Texas Elections 2018
How Texas counties voted for Beto O’Rourke, and more primary results by county
The results are in from the Texas primary elections on March 6, 2018, the first since President Donald Trump was elected. Check out county-by-county comparisons of turnout in a few key races.
