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President Trump announced a plan to direct a new U.S. census to exclude people without legal status from the population totals used for apportionment, a proposal that contradicts longstanding practice...
The most defensible figure in the available reporting for the United States citizen voting‑age population (18+) in 2024 is roughly 236–238 million people, a range supported by multiple Census‑based pr...
Courts have read the Census Clause’s directive to count “persons” expansively: judicial decisions and long administrative practice treat the census as a —not a roster of citizens—and permit a range of...
The has translated into direct federal grant awards and preliminary memoranda of terms for dozens of semiconductor manufacturing projects across the , with more than $30 billion in proposed private‑se...
Agencies and OPM guidance make clear that “excepted” activities during a lapse in appropriations are limited: functions that protect life and property, work funded by alternative (non‑annual) sources,...
Federal reporting and advocacy analyses disagree on which agencies incurred the largest FY2025 reductions, but three consistent patterns emerge: major cuts were concentrated in social-benefit and educ...
The 2018–2019 U.S. federal government shutdown ran from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, lasting , and it was the longest partial shutdown in modern U.S. history at that time . The shutdown aros...
in late 2025 moved silver from a simple quota regime to a licensing/whitelist system for 2026–2027, publicly naming 44 companies authorised to export silver and publishing the new rules via the and st...
The “” is an executive-branch-created investor visa program that fast-tracks lawful permanent residency—described by the White House as awarded to foreigners who make a “significant financial gift” to...
The Supreme Court treated the citizenship-question fight as a mixed legal outcome: it recognized the Secretary of Commerce’s statutory authority to ask about citizenship but blocked the specific 2020 ...
Federal employees during the 2025 shutdown were either furloughed or ordered to work without pay; federal law—the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019—requires retroactive pay for both furlo...
The shutdown has hit agencies unevenly: regulatory and education programs show very high furlough rates while critical national-security and safety functions continue but strain staffing and pay; agen...
, signed December 29, 2009, is the current governing order that prescribes how the executive branch classifies, safeguards, and declassifies national security information and therefore underpins the l...
’s recent jurisprudence treats the as a constitutional and statutory obligation to enumerate “whole persons,” but it has not uniformly embraced efforts to exclude or to single out noncitizens; instead...
implements the (WMRA) as a data-collection obligation: it collects initial, interim and final reports (Forms 17‑4 and 17‑4A) about weather‑modification activities but does not regulate, permit, fund, ...
Multiple federal district and bankruptcy courts are publicly saying that REAL ID is not required to enter their courthouses — state-issued photo IDs and other federal IDs remain acceptable — but feder...
The General Services Administration (GSA) sets a "minimal value" threshold that determines which gifts from foreign governments federal employees must report or turn over; statute requires GSA to reca...
China replaced its old quota system with a license‑based export regime for refined silver effective January 1, 2026, naming a limited roster of authorized firms to control outward flows and prioritize...
The United States imposed 25% tariffs on most steel imports under Section 232 in March–June 2018 (Presidential Proclamation 9704/9705) . The U.S. subsequently negotiated a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) with...
Available reporting shows China is both a huge legitimate producer of precursor and industrial chemicals and an evolving regulator tightening controls; authorities added several substances to controll...