US Policy Pulse

Election Administration Disputes

• 🔥 Senate Letter on USPS Role: Senators including Angus King denounced a White House executive order directing...

The White House is directing USPS to require states to submit voter rolls before delivering mail ballots, effectively giving federal control over who...

Trump's Capitol Hill meeting with Senate Republicans erupted into a shouting match over Iran war funding and legislative priorities.

• He abruptly...

North Carolina's bipartisan lawmakers are urging Congress to delay SNAP changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, warning states need more time to...

A federal judge in Texas vacated the 2024 Biden rule expanding administrative closure in immigration courts.

• Core impact: Permanently blocks DOJ...

Housing Legislation Update

• 🔥 Bipartisan Housing Bill: Congress passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with bipartisan votes in both...

Two distinct actions reveal a coordinated push against federal employee safeguards.

• Schedule F revival reclassifies ~8,000 policy roles as at-will,...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law blocking out-of-state sharing of abortion and gender-affirming care records without explicit patient consent,...

• Profit-sharing pacts with Nvidia and AMD for 15% of China chip sales have generated no revenue nearly a year later.
• Deals with 19 companies since...

A new GAO report reveals federal agencies struggle to adopt cloud computing due to outdated regulations and cost-tracking barriers.

• 15 of 24...

Despite Trump's pro-crypto stance, the CLARITY Act faces unexpected opposition that could derail it.

• Catholic Sisters and anti-trafficking groups...

The House Appropriations Committee approved its FY27 Labor-HHS bill in early June, proposing targeted shifts across health and social programs ahead...

White House domestic policy aide Heidi Overton, an MD with a Johns Hopkins doctorate, is among the final candidates to lead the FDA, offering a...

The White House is reviewing Endangered Species Act changes that would allow economic considerations in critical habitat decisions, potentially...

Congress delivered a rare bipartisan victory with the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, passing the Senate 85-5 and House 358-32 amid Harvard's report...

Healthcare Fraud Enforcement

• 🔥 DOJ Healthcare Fraud Takedown: The Department of Justice announced recovery of $6.5 billion in alleged fraud and...

Housing Policy Progress

• 🔥 Affordable Housing Bill: Congress reached a bicameral compromise and is set to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing...

Human Rights Watch condemns Operation Metro Surge as a "human rights crisis," citing 77.1% of arrests involved no criminal convictions and widespread...

Congress faces parallel ethics reforms on two fronts:

• Prediction markets: New bill bars lawmakers and families from betting on policy or election...

Senate and House leaders reached a bipartisan agreement this week on the 21st Century Road to Housing Act to boost supply.

Negotiations produced a...