American Policy Pulse

House Defense and Spending Bills

• 🔥 NDAA Passage: The House passed a $1.15tn defense policy bill by 216-212, including military pay raises and...

House Republicans attached voter ID requirements to a stock trading ban, passing the combined bill 232-198 with 13 Democratic votes ahead of...

• Tight 216-212 passage: Only six Democrats joined Republicans on the $1.1-1.15 trillion NDAA.
• Democratic opposition: Fueled by Iran war funding,...

Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse introduced the Get Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act to close the Citizens United loophole...

The House passed a clean continuing resolution Tuesday funding agencies through December 4, passing 220-205 mostly along party lines to avoid a...

State AI regulation has moved from emerging issue to enforceable compliance obligation across consumer transparency, healthcare, and employment.

Key...

Congressional Spending Actions

• 🔥 Stopgap Funding Bill: The House approved a continuing resolution extending government spending authority until...

House cleared a stopgap CR through December 4 on a 220-205 vote to dodge a shutdown, while also advancing a $95B framework. Senate appropriators are...

Anthropic is donating another $20 million to Public First Action, a group pushing to mitigate major AI risks and counter anti-regulation efforts...

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration cannot revoke already-awarded federal grants solely because of new policy priorities, limiting...

Government Funding Developments

• ⚡ White House Stopgap Wishlist: The White House sent Congress a list of anomalies requesting boosted funding for...

Democrats are pushing back hard against a proposed OMB rule that hands political appointees sweeping power over federal grants.

• The draft allows...

A new bill challenges citizenship guarantees in U.S. territories despite a recent Supreme Court ruling.

• H.R. 9724 would strip automatic citizenship...

President Trump's July 20 executive order restricts foreign sourcing of critical materials to protect military equipment production.

• Limits...

White House ethics language sent to Senate Republicans has lifted CLARITY Act passage odds.

• Author's estimate jumps from 5% to 20%, citing the...

White House sent Congress a Monday wishlist of boosted funding for a stopgap to avoid Sept. 30 shutdown.

• Key requests: military health programs,...

Birthright Citizenship Legislation

• 🔥 Territories Citizenship Bill: Republicans introduced H.R. 9724 to end automatic statutory birthright...

• House and Senate bills target children of illegal entrants or birth tourists, citing Justice Kavanaugh's view that Congress can act.
• Separate...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced the Grid Connection and Congestion Management Act on July 16 to create a fast-track interconnection pathway for...

The White House is exploring an independent AI regulator modeled on FINRA and reporting to the SEC to deliver consistent oversight for frontier...