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The available reporting shows a dramatic increase in ICE’s weapons procurement spending — commonly quantified at about in recent budgets — and lists purchases that include small arms, ordnance, and or...
The 43-day 2025 shutdown furloughed roughly 900,000 federal employees and forced about 2 million to work without pay, withholding nearly 3 million civilian paychecks worth an estimated $14 billion by ...
At least 670,000 federal employees were furloughed during the 2025 shutdown, while roughly 730,000 additional employees were required to work without pay, according to contemporaneous agency contingen...
The 2025 federal funding standoff triggered a government shutdown on October 1 that closed or put at risk a wide swath of agencies and programs, from national parks and some USDA payments to major hea...
Building a commercial gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment plant is a multi‑billion‑dollar undertaking whose largest visible line items are the centrifuges and their manufacturing/deployment, the civil a...
The assembled sources converge on a clear finding: during the 2025 federal shutdown many agencies continued *partial or limited operations*—notably the Department of Homeland Security components (air ...
Republican leaders played multiple, identifiable roles that contributed to the 2025 government shutdown: the House GOP advanced a short-term funding measure that failed in the Senate, while party lead...
Congress has a demonstrated record of blocking presidential initiatives through funding and legislative maneuvers, , but the sources provided do not show a definitive instance where Congress outright ...
The claim that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget “includes warheads” rests on recent reporting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) increased spending in categories that ...