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2026
- CRS Report on Appropriations for Rural Development Programs, Proposals for FY2027
- GAO Report on Tax Filing, IRS Should Enhance Ghost Preparer Identification and Compliance Efforts in a Comprehensive Preparer Strategy
- CRS Report on Defense Primer, US Special Operations Forces
- $872.5 Million From DOE to Triad National Security Tops Federal Contract Actions for October 25 to 31, 2026
- Retire through Ownership Act Signed Into Law as Public Law 119-124
- CRS Report on Israel, 2026 Elections and Government Formation
- Export Control Pressure Index Reads 33.9 as BIS Goes a Year Without an Entity List Addition and Beijing Keeps Countering
- Trump Executive Order 14438 on Decreasing Housing Costs for the American People
- Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act Signed Into Law as Public Law 119-127
- Clergy Act Signed Into Law as Public Law 119-125
- Trump Executive Order 14437 on Advancing Womens Health To Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life
- Trump Executive Order 14436 on Implementing the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026
- Romance Scam Prevention Act Signed Into Law as Public Law 119-129
- GAO Report on Critical Minerals, BLM Should Ensure Individuals and Businesses Meet Citizenship Requirements for Hardrock Mining Claims
- Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act Signed Into Law as Public Law 119-131
- CRS Report on FY2026 District of Columbia Budget and Appropriations
- CRS Report on Credible Fear and Defensive Asylum Processes, Frequently Asked Questions
- Trump Executive Order 14435 on Emergency Tax Relief on Diesel Fuel
- Pentagon Inspector General Declines Bipartisan Senate Request to Investigate Starlink and Starshield Disruptions in Ukraine
- OFAC Sanctions Rwandan Defense Ministry Over M23 and 11 Facilitators of North Korean IT Worker Fraud
- Mystic Alerts Act Signed Into Law as Public Law 119-136
- License to Drill Act Signed Into Law as Public Law 119-134
- GAO Report on Textile Circular Economy, Policy Options for the US
- GAO Report on Research Security, NIH Action Needed to Strengthen Foreign Interference Risk Management
- GAO Report on Nuclear Waste, Addressing Legal and Regulatory Barriers Could Accelerate Cleanup and Reduce Costs
- GAO Report on Geostationary Weather Satellites, Next Generation Program Challenges Put Vital Observations at Risk
- FCC Votes to Bar Chinese Test Labs That Check 82 Percent of US Electronics by December 2028
- DHS Investigates Potential Breach After 41,000 ICE, CBP and CISA Staff Records Published Online
- CRS Report on Military Memorials, Monuments, and Museums, Selected Resources for Federal, State, and Local Funding
- CRS Report on Foreign Relations Reauthorization, Background and Issues
- CRS Report on Equity and Good Conscience Debt Waiver Statutes
- CRS Report on Decommissioning Offshore Oil and Gas Infrastructure, Issues for Congress
- $372.5 Million From DOE to Fluor Marine Propulsion Tops Federal Contract Actions for October 18 to 24, 2026
- White Powder Letters Reach Election Offices in at Least Five States as the FBI Warns of Threats to Election Workers
- USTR Warns the EU That a Record European Investment Bank Loan to Airbus Threatens the Aircraft Subsidy Truce
- USDA Announces $8 Billion in Harvest Fuel Relief and $573 Million for Fertilizer Plants Weeks Before the Midterms
- Twenty One States Sue Treasury Over a Rule Exempting Nearly All Companies From Ownership Reporting
- Treasury Sanctions a Greek Law Firm Behind Iran Shadow Fleet Ships as FinCEN Issues Its First Subpoena to a European Bank
- Treasury Proposes Barring Large Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes Starting January 7, 2027
- Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Reject Student IDs at the Polls Over a Jackson Dissent
- Social Security Rewrites Its Records With 17 Million Death Dates and 25 Million Citizenship Entries From DHS SAVE
- OPM Final Rule Bars Administrative Leave for Federal Employees Serving as Poll Workers
- OMB and OPM Withdraw Shutdown Layoff Guidance Under a Union Settlement Ahead of the December 11 Deadline
- NSA, CISA and NIST Issue Incident Response Practices for Superintelligence Agents That Act on Their Own
- NRC Final Rule Lets Reactor Developers Use Energy and War Department Test Data in License Applications
- Justice Department Charges 48 Noncitizens With Election Crimes in Five States a Week Before the Midterms
- GSA and SBA Audit 689 Suspended 8a Contractors Whose Federal Contracts Carry a $5.5 Billion Ceiling
- GAO Finds HUD Cut 29 Percent of Its Workforce and Ended 21 Percent of Its Contracts, Then Did Not Answer the Auditors
- FinCEN Finds $270 Million in Suspicious Activity Tied to Federal Student Aid Fraud
- FBI Arrests a CIA Contractor With Top Secret Clearance on Charges of Leaking Classified Reports to a Journalist
- Energy Department Offers Constellation Up to $5 Billion for Nuclear Uprates at Eight Plants
- CMS Proposes Annual Income and Citizenship Checks Before ACA Subsidies Starting With 2028 Plans
- White House Press Corps Has No Legal Claim to the Brady Briefing Room as Trump Weighs a Move
- US Government News Digest for October 26 2026
- TPS Terminations Put Immigration Decision Making and Public Notice Under Scrutiny
- Government Shutdowns Turn Aviation Workers Into Washington's Financial Shock Absorbers
- Congress Needs a Verifiable Account of What the Iran Strikes Achieved
- Treasury COINS Act Rule Would Ban US Investment in Chinese and Russian Superintelligence, Supercomputing and Hypersonics
- Social Security Sets a 3.6% COLA for 2027, the Largest Since 2023, as CBO Puts the Retirement Fund Out of Money in 2032
- Pentagon Invites Governors to Bid for the First New US Military Base Since 1985, With Congress Still to Approve the Money
- Pentagon Acts as Investor and Bulk Buyer With 25,000 APKWS Kits a Year and Supplier Stakes, but Congress Holds the Money
- OFAC Hits Iran Offshore Banks, a Cartel del Noreste Racetrack and Chinese Firms Tied to Google Trade Secret Theft in One Week
- GAO Sets AI and Fiscal Oversight Priorities Through 2032 With No Confirmed Comptroller General and a House Bill Cutting Its Budget 25%
- GAO Finds the US Cannot Tell Who Owns the Critical Mineral Mines on Federal Land
- GAO Finds None of 24 Agencies Ready for Post-Quantum Encryption, and 16 Say It Is Too Early to Test
- GAO Finds NNSA Cut Its Federal Staff 11.9% as the Nuclear Weapons Workload Hits a Cold War High
- GAO Finds GPS Modernization Still Behind After DOD Cancels the OCX Ground System and Army Aviation Waits to 2049 for M-Code
- DOE Uses the Defense Production Act to Fund the Constitution Pipeline and Two Grid Projects, Up to $242 Million in Two Weeks
- CRS Tells Congress to Weigh Icebreaker Funding and Command Coordination as Russia Rebuilds Its Arctic Forces
- CBO Says Rates 1.5 Points Higher Would Add $6 Trillion to Deficits by 2036, With the 10-Year Yield Already at 5.2%
- The Iran War Cost Dispute Is Becoming a Test of Congressional Oversight
- Russian Sanctions Relief Exposes a Collision Between Energy Policy and Congressional Intent
- Trump Says the Ukraine Energy Ceasefire Is Holding as Kyiv Reports Six Energy Sites Hit and Lavrov Rejects Any Pause
- Trump Says a Decision on Iran Is Coming 'Very Soon' as Axios Reports Strike Talks With Netanyahu and the White House Denies Pre-Election Plans
- Treasury Fines Bank of America More Than $1.2 Billion for Willful Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations, a Record for the OCC
- Trade Court Certifies a Class for IEEPA Tariff Refunds, Putting About $30 Billion Owed to Small Importers in Play as DOJ Appeals
- Supreme Court Hears Whether Judges Still Defer to the Sentencing Commission's Commentary After Loper Bright
- Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Whether DOGE Must Answer Questions in a FOIA Case, and Takes Up the Asylum Material Support Bar
- State Department Restricts US Officials' Use of Saudi Airports as the Houthis Threaten Aramco and US Interests
- Pentagon Clears a Second Destroyer for Bath Iron Works, Reversing Its Own FY2027 Budget Three Weeks Before Collins's Election
- Pentagon AI Oversight Gaps Expose a Wider Problem in Government Technology Governance
- McConnell Joins Senators Demanding Trump Rescind the Russian Diesel License as the Graham Act Deadline Nears
- Judge Blocks USDA From Relocating About 2,600 Staff, Citing Limits Congress Wrote Into Spending Law That Run to December 11
- Japan's Prime Minister Calls the US Military Curfew 'Insufficient' After the Okinawa Killing as Pressure Builds to Revise the Status of Forces Agreement
- IMF Warns Sovereign Bond Yields Could Rise in a 'Disorderly Fashion' as It Puts US Growth at 2.3% and Oil at $96
- ICE Arrests of Children Have Doubled, With 8,592 Arrested This Term, as Detainees Hunger Strike at Georgia's Largest Detention Center
- Georgia Sets a First-Day Early Voting Record of About 185,000 as a Wisconsin Court Rules on Late Mail Ballots
- Fed's Williams, Collins and Waller Signal One More Rate Hike, Not a Series, as Waller Blames Part of High Yields on US Debt
- FCC Ban on Components From Covered List Chinese Firms Takes Effect as the Agency Sets Spectrum and Drone Votes for October 29
- Energy Department Orders PJM to Run Backup Generators at Data Centers as 61,000 MW of Power Plants Sit Out for Maintenance
- DOJ Indicts 14 in North Korean IT Worker Scheme and Raids More Than 40 Texas 'Laptop Farms' as FBI Warns Contractors
- DOJ Charges 16 People With Noncitizen Voting as Trump Allies Press for Election Emergency Powers and 1,000 Federal Monitors Deploy
- Census Bureau Proposes Excluding Noncitizens From the 2030 Apportionment Count and Dropping Race and Ethnicity Questions
- Federal Pressure on State Elections Is Testing the Boundaries of American Governance
- White House Suspends H-1B and Green Card Processing for Microsoft, Tata, Infosys and Five Other Firms
- Trump Tells Ukraine to Get a New Leader and Declares an Energy Ceasefire Kyiv Says It Wasn't Told About
- Trump Declares War on Artificial Intelligence. The Artificial Part, That Is.
- Seven Senators Say Trump's Russian Diesel License Breaks the 2022 Import Ban, and Bessent Says They're Wrong
- Rubio Sanctions the Entire International Criminal Court as Washington and 28 Allies Blame Iran for the RAF Fairford Plot
- Postal Service Pickup Cuts Threaten Rural Mail Ballots as Georgia Opens Early Voting on October 13
- Pentagon Quietly Revises the Iran War Toll to 21 Dead and 865 Wounded as Lawmakers Demand an Explanation
- Judge Orders DHS to Pull $20 Million in Taxpayer-Funded TV Ads Featuring Trump Three Weeks Before the Midterms
- ICE Told to Add 1,000 Arrests a Day Before the Midterms, as DHS Denies Quotas and Mullin Refuses to Pause New York Operations
- Hurricane Isaias: FEMA Emergency Declarations for Florida, Alabama and Georgia Cover Public Response Only, With No Help for Households Yet
- Houthi Strike on Riyadh Airport Kills an American as Trump Weighs Joining Saudi Strikes and Iran Calls the US Hormuz Offer Inadequate
- Hegseth's Plan to Livestream Nidal Hasan's Firing Squad Execution Splits Republicans as Trump Says He'll Decide
- Graham Act Tariff Deadline Is Days Away With No Country List, Rates or Waiver Published
- Fourteen States Sue the Labor Department Over $45 Million in Canceled Unemployment System Grants
- Fed's Hammack Says Rates Need to Be Higher as Hawks Line Up Before September CPI and the October 27 to 28 Meeting
- FDA Tells a Federal Court Its Mifepristone Safety Review Will Run to March 2027, Ruling Out Changes Before the Midterms
- FCC v. Brown: Supreme Court Weighs Whether Parties Get Candidates' Cheapest TV Ad Rates in the Final Weeks Before the Midterms
- FBI Seizes Chinese Contractor's Hacking Tools Used Against US Agencies as CISA's Patch Deadline Passes
- EU Adopts Its 22nd Russia Sanctions Package With About 1,600 Listings in the Week Washington Loosened Its Own
- DOE Authorizes a 4 Million Barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve Exchange for ExxonMobil and BP After a Gulf Hurricane
- Bessent Skips the IMF Meetings in Bangkok During the US G20 Presidency as Warren Presses Him on 5% Treasury Yields
- US Shipbuilding Push Rides on the NDAA: SHIPS Act Provisions, a $20 Billion Trust Fund and Korea's $150 Billion Pledge
- US Government Takes Equity Stakes in Critical Minerals Companies: How Washington's Approach Compares With China and the EU
- Trump's War on Wind Power: $4 Billion of Taxpayer Money Spent to Cancel Electricity America Needs
- Trump's Hostility to Solar Fights the Cheapest, Fastest Power America Can Build as Data Centers Push Demand Up
- Trump's Animosity Toward Ukraine Rewards Putin: From the Oval Office Ambush to a Russian Diesel Deal
- The Pentagon's $1.5 Trillion Request Meets a Stalled NDAA and a Stopgap That Funds Defense at $838 Billion
- FT Poll Puts Trump's Economy Approval at a Record Low of About 25% Three Weeks Before the Midterms
- Federal Hiring After the Cuts: Strategic Hiring Committees, a One-for-Four Rule and 8,000 Jobs Moved to Schedule Policy-Career
- FDA's Red No. 3 Ban Takes Effect January 15, 2027, but the Wider Food Dye Phase-Out Is Still Voluntary
- FDA Under an Acting Commissioner: Six CDER Chiefs in Two Years, 46 Novel Approvals in 2026 and PDUFA VIII Out for Comment
- DHS and New York City Clash Over the Marble Hill ICE Shooting as a Federal Judge Blocks Oscar Bergal's Removal
- Congress Faces a December 11 Cliff: Government Funding, the NDAA, the Farm Bill and the Cyber Sharing Law All Due After the Midterms
- CENTCOM Disables Cargo Ship Ocean Molica in the Gulf of Oman as the Resumed Iran Blockade Turns Back 135 Ships in Three Months
- 27 Inspector General Posts Vacant 20 Months After the Watchdog Firings, With Nominees for Only Six
- 2026 Midterms: Democrats Lead the Generic Ballot by About 8 Points as Cook Moves 18 House Races, and What Control Means for the Budget
- US Russia Sanctions Move in Both Directions as the EU's 22nd Package and Britain's 600 Tankers Carry the Load
- US Nuclear Push Gets a $120 Billion Korea Framework for AP1000s While the Palisades Restart Stalls on a Tipped Fuel Assembly
- Trump's Elections Order at 18 Months: Courts Block Proof of Citizenship and DOJ Loses 26 Voter Roll Suits
- The Graham Russia Sanctions Act Takes Effect on October 19 as Trump Strikes a Diesel Deal With Putin
- Surface Transportation Board Puts Union Pacific's $85 Billion Norfolk Southern Takeover Through Its First Test Under the 2001 Merger Rules
- Senate Permitting Deal S. 5653 Sets a 150-Day Lawsuit Clock and Makes Data Centers Pay for Their Grid Upgrades
- No New US Aid for Ukraine Since 2024: Weapons Now Flow Through NATO-Funded PURL Sales
- Iran War Costs Reach $43.6 Billion by the Pentagon's Count as Congress Stalls on Funding and Interceptor Stocks Run Low
- Interior Pays $3.9 Billion to Retire Offshore Wind Leases While the Five Projects It Tried to Stop Keep Building
- GAO Finds New Impoundment Violations as the House Proposes a 25% Cut to Congress's Watchdog
- FY2027 Appropriations: The House Has Passed 3 of 12 Bills, the Senate None, With Funding Running Out December 11
- FMCSA's Non-Domiciled CDL Rule Will Push Out About 194,000 Truckers as California's $160 Million Penalty Goes to Court
- FedRAMP 20x Reaches 538 Certified Cloud Services on a $10 Million Budget, While Europe Still Has No Common Cloud Certification
- After Trump v. Slaughter: The Election Commission Is Empty, the SEC and FTC Are All-Republican, and Lisa Cook Faces a For-Cause Hearing
- US Tariff Revenue Falls to $172 Billion in FY2026 as IEEPA Refunds Turn Customs Receipts Negative for Three Months
- Transit Fiscal Cliffs: Bay Area Votes on November 3 as the Federal Stopgap Cuts Transit Funding About 20%
- Section 301 Forced Labor Tariffs on 60 Economies Face a Court of International Trade Test After the IEEPA Ruling
- Interest on US Debt Hits $1.14 Trillion in FY2026, More Than Defense or Medicare, With the Debt Limit $800 Billion Away
- Highway Trust Fund Runs Dry in 2028, CBO Says, as the House's $580 Billion Highway Bill Stalls Short of the Floor
- FEMA Denies More State Disaster Requests With 21,000 Staff and a Surge Force of 240, as States Absorb the Cost
- DOE's Genesis Mission Adds $159 Million in Phase II AI Science Awards as Its Platform Milestone Goes Unconfirmed
- DOE Genesis Mission Picks 278 AI Science Projects as Data Center Deals Advance on Federal Land
- After USAID: GAO Counts 6,780 Awards Ended as the State Department Takes Over $52 Billion in Foreign Aid
- The $100,000 H-1B Fee Is Blocked by Two Courts as Legal Immigration Shrinks: Refugee Cap 17,500, Travel Ban on 39 Countries
- Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs: $122 Billion in Refunds and the Section 301 and 232 Tariffs That Replaced Them
- CISA's Cyber Incident Reporting Rule Sits at OIRA as the Agency Shrinks to 2,200 Staff Without a Confirmed Director
- Bid Protests at GAO Fall to a Decade Low With a 14% Sustain Rate, Yet the Pentagon and GSA Push 'Loser Pays'
- US Tax Take Stays at 25.6% of GDP as the OECD Average Hits a Record 34.1%, and Pillar Two Carves Out US Companies
- US Court Throws Out 4chan's Suit Against Britain's Ofcom, but Offshore Online Safety Fines Still Go Unpaid
- US Boat Strike Death Toll Reaches 238 a Year After the First Attack, With Maduro Awaiting Trial in New York
- Improper Payments: $186 Billion a Year, a GAO Fraud Estimate Up to $521 Billion, and Treasury's Do Not Pay Push
- GSA OneGov AI Deals Move Past $1 Pricing as Federal Procurement Consolidates and the FAR Is Rewritten
- GAO Flags FAR Overhaul Clause Confusion as the Second Batch of Rewrites Hits an October 19 Comment Deadline
- Education Department's Own Watchdog Opens a Review as the Agency Hands Off Its Work in 14 Interagency Deals
- DOE's LNG Export Approvals Pass 18.6 Bcf a Day as US Supplies a Quarter of the World Market and the EU's $750 Billion Pledge Lags
- US Economy in 2026: The Warsh Fed Raises Rates to 4% as Inflation Hits 3.4% and Job Growth Stalls at 29,000
- US Cyber Information-Sharing Law Runs on Stopgaps While the EU Cyber Resilience Act Reporting Clock Starts
- Supreme Court Clears the Way to End Venezuelan TPS as the Refugee Cap Rises to 17,500, Months After It Upheld Birthright Citizenship
- FERC Drops a National Data Center Grid Rule for Six Regional Fights, With Grid Operator Filings Due November 16
- DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing Shifts Federal Energy Loans to Nuclear, Gas and the Grid
- ODNI Cut to About Half Its Size as Jay Clayton Becomes the Third Intelligence Chief in a Year
- Golden Dome: CBO Puts the Cost at $1.2 Trillion Over 20 Years While 97% of Next Year's Money Waits on Reconciliation
- FAA Air Traffic Control Overhaul Asks Congress for $30 Billion More as GAO Finds No Reliable Cost Estimate
- DOE Emergency Orders Keep Coal Plants Open as a Court Rules Against the Campbell Order and FERC Delays Data Center Rules
- Border Apprehensions Head for the Lowest Since 1967 as the $46.5 Billion Wall Build Runs at 7 Miles a Week
- US Government Funded to December 11 After a Year of Record Shutdowns
- Medicare's First Negotiated Part B Drug Prices Are Due November 30 as the MFN Pricing Model Shrinks From $11.9 Billion to $440 Million in Savings
- ICE Is Funded Through 2029 Outside the Normal Budget: Detention Near 69,000 and 2,365 Local 287(g) Agreements
- EPA Repeals Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Standards and NHTSA Cuts Fuel Economy to 34.9 MPG, With No Fines Left for Missing Them
- Wind and Solar Tax Credits Pass Their July 4 Deadline With 200 GW Safe-Harbored After a Court Restored the 5% Test
- Project Vault Signs Glencore and Mercuria as the FORGE Critical Minerals Price Floor Agreement Stays Unsigned
- Medicaid Work Requirements Start Nationwide January 1, 2027: Nebraska's First Data and 25 States in Court
- Federal AI Preemption vs State Laws: Colorado Retreats, California Holds and Congress Stalls
- EU Cloud and AI Development Act Could Shut US Cloud Providers Out of Sensitive Public Contracts
- USTR's Port Fees on Chinese Ships Are Still Set to Return November 10, Though Treasury Says the Truce Runs to January
- US CLOUD Act vs EU Law: The Data Privacy Framework Survives Its First Court Test as US Cloud Giants Build Sovereign Versions
- State Budgets Go Flat for FY2027 as Rainy-Day Funds Fall and Washington Shifts SNAP and Medicaid Costs to the States
- Permitting Reform Compared: The US Rewrites NEPA, Britain Passes Its Planning Act and the EU Proposes Deadlines With Tacit Approval
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac IPO Stalls as Treasury's $234 Billion Claim Grows and Shares Fall More Than Half
- US Arms Sales in 2026: Saudi F-35s Approved, Taiwan's $14 Billion Air Defense Package Frozen After the Xi Summit
- Semiconductor Export Controls Fragment: Nvidia H200 Licenses Stall, Nexperia Splits and China Targets Japan
- Section 232 Becomes the Main US Tariff Tool: Metals at 50%, Autos, Chips, Drones and Polysilicon Next
- Pocket Rescissions Explained: How a 1974 Law Against Nixon's Impoundments Became the 2025-26 Budget Fight
- Login.gov Now Accepts Mobile Driver's Licenses, but Only About 20 States Issue Them and Apple Wallet Isn't Supported Yet
- US-China Trade Truce Extended to January 10, 2027: What Each Side Has Suspended and What Is Still in Force
- US Visa Bans and Tariff Threats Meet Europe's Digital Services Act Fines on X and Temu
- FDA Becomes a Tool of Industrial Policy: Priority Vouchers, PreCheck and the 100% Pharma Tariff That Most Big Drugmakers Avoid
- DOGE Ends as GAO Calls Its $110 Billion Savings Claim Unreliable and the Federal Workforce Shrinks 11%
- The US Still Has No National Digital ID, So OMB Orders Agencies Onto Login.gov Within Two Years
- US Threatens to Pull Buy American Waivers as Europe Writes 'Buy European' Into Defense Spending
- FISA Section 702 Lapsed in June, but Collection Runs to March 2027 Under Court-Approved Certifications
- CISA's Midterm Election Security Plan Leaves States and Counties Paying for What Washington Used to Provide
- As Washington Fights the States Over AI Rules, the EU Delays Its High-Risk AI Act Obligations to December 2027
- New OPM Layoff Rules Put Performance Ahead of Seniority as Schedule Policy-Career Lawsuits Wait for a Ruling
- CBO Projects US Debt at 120% of GDP by 2036 and 175% by 2056 as Interest Costs Overtake Defense
- Rubio Made Permanent National Security Adviser as the NSC Runs With Fewer Than 50 Policy Staff
- Five Eyes Under Strain: Allies Limit Intelligence Sharing With Washington Case by Case
- Why Government IT Projects Fail: HealthCare.gov, the FBI's Virtual Case File and the Lessons From Phoenix, Horizon and Robodebt
- US Debt Limit of $41.1 Trillion Expected to Bind in 2027: How Denmark, Germany and the EU Handle Borrowing Limits
- DOE Concedes Its $7.56 Billion Clean Energy Grant Cuts Turned on State Politics, and Courts Start Restoring Awards
- A US Export Rule Split Nexperia in Two: Dutch Court Probe, Chinese Asset Freeze and a Deal With India's Tata
- US Federal Workforce Shrinks by 11% While Britain's Civil Service Stays Near a 20-Year High
- US-Japan Critical Minerals Pact Moves Toward Price Floors as China Squeezes Japan's Rare Earth Supply
- Statistics Agencies Under Strain: BLS After the Firing, ONS After the Review, and Argentina's Shelved Inflation Index
- CBO Prices the Navy's Battleship Program at $275 Billion for 15 Ships, With the Lead Ship at $23 Billion
- Coast Guard Orders 11 Arctic Security Cutters for $6.8 Billion While GAO Puts the First Polar Security Cutter at 2033
- GSA's $50 Billion Multiple Award Schedule vs Britain's G-Cloud: Two Ways to Buy Government Technology
- Chip Subsidies Compared: US Takes an Intel Stake, EU Drafts Chips Act 2.0, Japan Funds Rapidus and Korea Legislates
- GAO 2026 Duplication Report: $774 Billion Saved Since 2011, $100 Billion Still on the Table, and $186 Billion in Improper Payments
- TikTok's US Joint Venture Still Runs on ByteDance's Licensed Algorithm as the Company Skips a House China Committee Hearing
- Hegseth's Acquisition Overhaul Meets GAO's Numbers: 12-Year Weapons Timelines, a Canceled Frigate and a Late Columbia Submarine
- US Spends 3.17% of GDP on Defense While Five NATO Allies Pass 3.5% in the Alliance's 2026 Estimates
- National Guard in US Cities After Trump v. Illinois: Troops Leave Chicago, LA and Portland but Stay in DC Until 2029
- California High-Speed Rail Loses Its Federal Grants as Britain's HS2 Resets at Up to £102.7 Billion
- VA's Oracle Health Record Costs Near $50 Billion as the Contract Ceiling Nearly Triples and Cleveland and Anchorage Go Next
- Technology Modernization Fund Faces the December 11 Cliff After GAO Finds $13.5 Million in Realized Savings on $1 Billion
- Reconciliation 3.0 Stalls in the Senate: The House's $95 Billion Iran War, Farm Aid and Voter ID Package Has No Offsets
- Second Avenue Subway vs Madrid Metro: Why New York Pays Over Ten Times the Global Average per Mile
- GAO 2025 High-Risk List: 38 Federal Programs, 10 Improved, 3 Got Worse
- Immigration Court Backlog Falls Below 3.5 Million as 40% of Judges Turn Over and Asylum Grants Hit a Record Low
- NATO's Ankara Summit Kept the Text Short for Washington: €70 Billion for Ukraine and a $40 Billion Counter-Drone Push
- GAO Finds 11 Federal Legacy IT Systems Costing $754 Million a Year, the Oldest 60 Years Old
- US Allows Nvidia H200 Sales to China With a 25% Cut, but Shipments Stay Trivial as Beijing Blocks Imports
- IRS Heads Into the 2027 Filing Season With No Commissioner, 28% Fewer Staff and the First Tip and Overtime Forms