US Policy Pulse

Trump administration policies on stablecoins are indirectly enriching Nigel Farage's key patron through Tether.

• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick...

Congress faces a compressed FY 2027 appropriations fight with competing continuing resolutions and unfinished spending bills. The House...

• Senate floor vote scheduled for September 15 on the CLARITY Act, the main bill establishing digital asset market structure rules.
• Legislation...

South Dakota corn growers see slim odds for a new farm bill this year after the Senate Agriculture Committee failed a key vote 10-11, leaving farmers without certainty for planting and financial decisions.

Error-filled AI-drafted bills are overwhelming House lawyers, forcing them to spend more time fixing mistakes than writing legislation from scratch.

Two recent developments reveal a coordinated erosion of institutional safeguards.

• Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. Slaughter grants the president...

The Illinois State Fair's annual Republican and Democratic rallies function as an unofficial election kickoff and key barometer of how each party is...

Chief Justice Roberts used the shadow docket to lift a lower-court injunction blocking Trump's East Wing ballroom construction, offering no reasoning...

• Montana's 2025 law requires disclosure for AI-generated deepfake election content within 60 days of voting, .
• Challengers argue the statute lets...

Dr. Ahlem Arfaoui's award-winning analysis shows campaign finance rules produce distinct effects on different donors.

• Particularistic contributors...

Congress talks tough on Flock cameras but has introduced no bills to regulate the surveillance tech.

• President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum to enable over 1,000 launches and reentries annually on U.S. soil by 2030,...

Independent shops lose $3.1 billion yearly from restricted vehicle data access, forcing customers to pay extras like $1,200 for dealership-only...

The Trump administration is ramping up economic pressure on Iran with new sanctions framed as an "economic D-Day" to force Strait of Hormuz...

Overlap voters living in both targeted U.S. House districts and DLCC state legislative races number more than 12 million and may decide 44 House seats...

Sen. Dick Durbin, the DREAM Act's lead sponsor for 25 years, is urging a team including Sens. Alex Padilla and Catherine Cortez Masto to take over as...

HSI agents were redirected from serious crimes to noncitizen voting leads starting in 2025, with one Ohio investigator pausing a multistate child...

Trump family crypto interests are generating cash as Congress cleared stablecoin regulations last year, spotlighting potential ethics tensions with ongoing legislative pushes.

The new policy supersedes Obama's 2013 version, making commercial industry the centerpiece while expanding scope to lunar and deep space...

• CFTC Chair Michael Selig pledged to "move swiftly" on crypto market rules using existing authority if Congress fails to pass the Clarity Act.
• The...