Government Operations
Homeland Security Markup Meeting is Without Published Agenda
The House Homeland Security Committee is scheduled to hold a markup hearing on June 24, but the lack of a published agenda leaves key questions unanswered...
Democrats Lose All Amendments on DHS Budget Bill
The House Appropriations Committee's FY27 Homeland Security appropriations markup lays bare the sharpest fault lines in American immigration policy heading...
Senate Republicans Block Effort to Overturn Asylum Appeals Rule
The Senate rejected a Democratic push to overturn a Trump administration immigration rule that reshapes how asylum appeals are handled, marking a decisive...
Federal Appeals Court Rulings Show Legal Patchwork on Key Issues
A new Congressional Research Service legal report published June 10 maps the most consequential circuit splits from May 2026, and the fault lines it...
Circuit Split Blocks Detention Without Bond Hearings
A new Congressional Research Service report published June 9 lays bare a legal crisis at the heart of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement...
Class Action Lawsuits Circumvent Supreme Court Injunction Limits
The Supreme Court's 2025 ruling in Trump v. CASA, Inc. was supposed to be a win for the Trump administration. The Court curtailed the use of nationwide...
House Advances Fraud Bills Paired With Immigration Funding
Why it matters: The House Rules Committee convened on June 8, 2026, to set floor debate terms for a package of government fraud prevention measures...
House Locks in Border Enforcement Funding Through 2029
The Secure America Act floor vote landed exactly as advertised: 214 Republicans in favor, every Democrat and the chamber's lone independent opposed. No...
House Passes Combined Fraud Prevention and Border Security Bills
The House voted 213–211 Tuesday to adopt H.Res. 1345, a procedural rule vote that cleared the path for floor consideration of a package combining two...
House Passes Anti-Fraud and Border Security Package in Narrow Party-Line Vote
The House cleared a key procedural hurdle Tuesday, advancing a package of Republican-backed legislation targeting federal payment fraud and border security...
Congress Battles Over Supreme Court Legitimacy, Immigration
Why it matters: The House Judiciary Committee markup on June 3 advanced six bills spanning immigration enforcement, Supreme Court structure, worker safety...
DHS Budget Hearing Reveals Partisan Divide Over Border Funding
Why it matters: The House Homeland Security Committee's FY2027 DHS budget review on June 3 put a newly confirmed DHS Secretary on the defensive from the...
Trump Administration Seeks Increase To Denaturalize Citizens
A new Congressional Research Service report quietly published this week lays out the denaturalization legal framework in stark detail — and the picture it...
Senate Clash Over Denaturalization Powers
Why it matters: The Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on denaturalization Wednesday, June 3, the third in a...
Senate Passes $70 Billion Immigration Crackdown Bill
Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a Democratic procedural maneuver aimed at slowing down S. 2, the reconciliation bill advancing the Trump...
Senate Republicans Pass Border Bill, Ending Democratic Delays
The Senate voted June 1, 2026 on a Democratic procedural motion that would have slowed a roughly $72 billion immigration and border enforcement package —...
Private Citizen Hires Lobbying Firm on Immigration Issues
A private individual named Ziv Reizman has filed a new lobbying registration disclosure with Washington lobbying firm Ellis & Co. LLC, registering to lobby...
Supreme Court Redraws Federal Litigation Rules, Congress Can Respond
A new Congressional Research Service report on Supreme Court civil procedure rulings from the October 2025 term reveals decisions with sweeping consequences...