US Policy Risk Monitor

A House committee recommends stronger coordination and real-time fraud tracking to address reported losses reaching $15.9 billion.

Todd Blanche’s push to become Attorney General faces layered ethics challenges:

• Gaffe and politicization: He slipped into calling himself “Trump’s...

Track federal candidates via the FEC site to see top individual and PAC donors plus Super PAC spending.

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President Trump's 2025 disclosure reveals major stock activity in firms winning DHS immigration contracts.

• Axon: 24 trades totaling $1.26 million...

Hawaii's new pension forfeiture law could face its first application in the ongoing bribery case against state officials, potentially stripping...

Senate cleared a bipartisan continuing resolution 89-4, funding government through Dec. 11 and pausing the OMB grants rule.

• Key concessions: No new...

• Senate Democrats introduced the Stop Corrupt Trading Act to bar presidents and their companies from selling nonpublic social media access via API,...

Michigan Democrats decide tonight whether AIPAC's record $30 million bet on Rep. Haley Stevens can overcome Abdul El-Sayed's grassroots surge, backed...

Two state cases highlight systemic ethics enforcement weaknesses:

• Oregon Sen. Christine Drazan’s nonprofit paid her consulting firm $96,000 without...

Senate leaders from both parties unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill funding agencies through Dec. 11, aiming to prevent a pre-midterm shutdown. The...

• Trump's crypto surge: Disclosures show $1.2–1.4 billion in crypto profits in one year, including $635 million from meme coin royalties and $500...

Two ethics groups filed separate complaints alleging FCC Chairman Carr and Commissioner Trusty violated gift rules by accepting Paramount tickets to...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is elevating corruption as a central 2026 campaign theme, declaring it “out of control” and vowing to “hold...

Acting ICE Director David Venturella's ethics pledges include divestment from GEO Group stock and recusal from certain contracts, yet loopholes...

The Provider Reimbursement Stability Act, led by Sen. Angus King (I-ME) with Republican and Democratic co-sponsors, would modernize Medicare's...

The Crypto Clarity Act risks additional delay as lawmakers prioritize other bills before the August recess, creating ongoing regulatory uncertainty...

Federal raids across Southern California targeted homes and offices tied to local officials and EDI Media founder James Su, whose company has...

When should calls to prosecute corruption wait for evidence?

• Jeffries frames accountability as a Democratic priority amid widespread voter distrust...

Trump Media sold another 2,628 BTC recently, with critics linking the moves to ongoing CLARITY Act debates over officials' crypto conflicts.

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Marc Andreessen is urging a permanent federal crypto framework focused on fraud prevention and investor protection, timed with the CLARITY Act's...