Congress

Committee Demands Answers on Frozen Education Funding

The House Education and Workforce Committee is set to examine the Department of Education at a moment when the administration has withheld roughly $2...

Congress

Navy's Record Budget Faces Unstable Leadership Test

The House Armed Services Committee convenes Thursday to examine the Department of the Navy's $377.5 billion FY2027 budget request — the largest in the...

Personnel Movements

Hunter Miller Promoted to Chief of Staff After Rapid Rise Through Ranks

Hunter Miller has been promoted to Chief of Staff in Rep. Marlin Stutzman's (R-IN-3) office, stepping up from his role as Deputy Chief of Staff, which he...

Government Operations

DOE Spending Nearly $1 Billion Yearly on Aging Nuclear Waste Facilities

The federal government is spending nearly $1 billion a year to maintain aging nuclear facilities — and it still can't say with confidence what it actually...

Defense

Pentagon Fails Audit Again As 2028 Deadline Looms

The Pentagon has failed its financial audit seven consecutive times. A 2028 deadline for a clean audit is now law, with penalties attached. And the firms...

Law and Order

Courts Narrow Legal Pathways for Acting Federal Officials

The Trump administration's aggressive use of acting officials to staff federal agencies is running into a hard legal wall, and a new Congressional Research...

Law and Order

Federal Audit Clears DOGE of NLRB Access Misconduct

A new federal audit has found no evidence that Department of Government Efficiency detailees accessed National Labor Relations Board IT systems during a...

Government Operations

Federal Obligations to Tribal Forests Remain Critically Underfunded

A new Congressional Research Service report on tribal forestry lands at a moment of maximum tension: the Trump Administration is cutting federal agency...

Law and Order

Court Blocks Vaccine Schedule Changes, Reshapes Injury Compensation

A federal court's decision to pause the Trump administration's overhaul of the CDC vaccine schedule has done more than freeze a policy dispute. It has...

Congress

Nuclear Arsenal Expansion Scrutinized Amid Budget Cuts

The Senate Armed Services Committee convenes Wednesday for a hearing that puts a proposed $32.8 billion budget for the National Nuclear Security...

Legislation

Grid Crisis: Permitting Power Lines to Lower Bills

American households are paying 21 percent more for electricity than they did five years ago, roughly 1 in 6 is behind on utility bills, and the grid is...

Congress

Committee Examines Private Sector Safety Gap

Federal workplace safety enforcement is contracting. OSHA's budget is reportedly being cut from $632 million to $582 million, inspections dropped...

Congress

GSA Budget Cuts Threatening Federal Government Operations

The General Services Administration is emerging from one of the most turbulent periods in its history — deep DOGE-driven workforce cuts, a watchdog alarm...

Public Lands

The Army Corps Budget Fight Taking Shape Over Water

The Trump administration's U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FY2027 appropriations request is setting up a collision with Congress over how the federal...

Government Operations

VA Police Investigated Employees Mourning Colleague

The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee is set to examine VA police operations on May 13 — and the timing is driven by a cascade of events that have put the...

Government Operations

U.S. Blacklists Domestic AI Leader From Defense Contracts

A new Congressional Research Service report is putting a sharp spotlight on one of the more unusual confrontations in recent tech policy history: the...

Government Operations

Congress Controls Foreign Leader Invitations, Not White House

A new Congressional Research Service report on foreign leaders addressing Congress arrives at a moment when the Trump administration is aggressively...