U.S. national security: funding battles, tech decoupling, and policy shifts

House passes national security appropriations bills. New: Article 'Whose Election Is It, Anyway?' ties voter file accessibility, NJ noncitizen voting admission, and SAVE Act context. Trump proposes automatic green cards for foreign graduates. Intel's $40B government stake test case. Silicon Valley CEOs lobby against AI restrictions. Election integrity fight intensifies: NJ/TX voter registration errors, mail ballot order blocked, CA anti-voter ID law challenged. DOJ withdraws NYT subpoenas; admin admits political grant cancellations. Berlin terror attack; Trump plane threat. Trump used Slaughter ruling to wipe out EAC.