Legislation

Report Shows Congress Ethics Shift From Disclosure to Prohibition

A surge of congressional financial disclosure legislation in the 119th Congress signals a tipping point. Members are moving beyond the disclosure-based...

Government Operations

Veteran Affairs Pushes AI for Disability Claims Amid Concerns

Why It Matters: The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization held a hearing on PACT Act VA disability claims modernization on...

Macroeconomics

Warm Winters Left Out of Disaster Aid for Small Businesses

A Government Accountability Office report released this week exposes a significant gap in federal disaster assistance for businesses hit by climate-driven...

Follow the Money

GAO Lists 11 Priority Recommendations for GSA

A new Government Accountability Office report released July 13, 2026 catalogues GSA open recommendations that remain unresolved, exposing systemic...

Public Lands

National Park System Bills Face Senate Review

A Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on July 21 will tackle 30 bills affecting the National Park System at a moment when western...

Personnel Movements

Early Edge California Hires Raben Group LLC

Early Edge California has shifted its lobbying strategy by moving representation from Actum I LLC to Raben Group LLC, according to a lobbying registration...

Commerce

Senate Finance Committee Advances Five ITC Nominees

The Senate Finance Committee unanimously advanced five nominees to the International Trade Commission on Tuesday, signaling bipartisan support for staffing...

Government Operations

House Examines Federal Reserve Independence, Inflation Under Warsh

Why it matters: Kevin Warsh appeared before Congress for the first time as Federal Reserve chairman on July 14, 2026, facing sharp questioning about...

Congress

SBA Chief Defends 67% Budget Cut Proposal

Kelly Loeffler, the Small Business Administration Administrator, faced pointed criticism on July 14, 2026, as lawmakers questioned the Trump...

Law and Order

Lawmakers To Audit Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Over Cuts

The House Financial Services Committee is preparing to scrutinize the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at a time when FinCEN faces significant...

Health

Defense Department Mandates Rules for Military Field Medicine

Across hospital ships, field hospitals, and aircraft carriers where combat medics and military physicians treat service members in the most austere...

Law and Order

Supreme Court Justices Seek Budget Boost for Security

Why it matters: Two Supreme Court justices appeared before Congress on July 14, 2026, to defend a 7.2 percent budget increase driven largely by security...

Government Operations

Military Scrutinized Over Border Spending Controls

The Department of Defense has obligated nearly $2.64 billion for southern border security operations since the start of fiscal year 2025, according to a...

Government Operations

GAO Urges Space Force to Overhaul Workforce Planning

The Space Force is operating with a quarter of its authorized positions unfilled, and the military service has no clear system to determine how many...

Labor and Employment

GAO Released An Updated Training Guide For Federal Employees

The federal government spends billions annually on federal employee training, yet agencies often lack clear strategies to measure whether those investments...

Government Operations

U.S. Department of Agriculture Faces Mounting Backlog of Audits

The Department of Agriculture faces a mounting backlog of unfulfilled federal agency open recommendations from the Government Accountability Office, raising...

Government Operations

Regulators Block Deployment of Microbes for Waste Cleanup

Genetically modified bacteria could help clean up some of the nation's most stubborn environmental contamination, but a new Government Accountability Office...