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Between 2009 and 2017 the Obama White House saw rather than large-scale structural renovations: the planting of the White House Kitchen Garden by First Lady Michelle Obama, décor and room refreshes le...
Congress reacted with immediate questions, legal challenges and symbolic rebukes: the White House notified Congress under the War Powers Resolution within 48 hours , members filed lawsuits and demande...
The Obama administration publicly stated and implemented policies that over non-criminal undocumented immigrants, particularly after 2011 guidance and the 2014 “felons not families” framing; however, ...
The Obama administration both expanded and later reined in two key programs that tied local policing to federal immigration enforcement: Secure Communities was pushed widely into jurisdictions early i...
Reporting and fact-checking on Obama-era cash transfers to Iran centers on a well-documented settlement that resulted in $1.7 billion total being returned to Iran — of which $400 million in cash was a...
argued that was playing a limited, supporting role inside a -commanded operation in and therefore did not require a new statutory declaration of war or fresh congressional authorization, relying on th...
The Obama administration built internal oversight around agency-wide enforcement priorities, new inspection offices and modified detainer practice to channel limited DHS resources toward national-secu...
The Obama administration inherited and debated a range of non‑custodial tools — broadly called alternatives to detention (ATDs) including community‑based case management, monitoring technologies, lega...
Estimates of civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes during the Obama presidency vary widely depending on the source and methodology: independent advocates and investigative researchers say civilian c...
The available reporting shows , but news outlets and the White House did not disclose a definitive total cost. Coverage notes specific projects—including converting the tennis court for basketball use...
administration presided over a marked shift in how counted and carried out immigration enforcement: formal “removals” rose in prominence while “returns” fell sharply, producing millions of total depar...
The Obama administration removed more people—by several measures—than most recent predecessors and some successors, with peak annual removals in FY2013 and roughly 2–3 million deportations/returns ove...
The Obama administration’s Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) and public fact sheets tied lethal targeting outside areas of active hostilities to a “continuing, imminent” threat and a set of heightene...
The Obama administration did authorize overseas strikes that killed U.S. citizens — the White House publicly acknowledged four such deaths in 2013 — and the program operated with significant secrecy t...
The Obama administration justified strikes across the Middle East primarily by invoking existing congressional authorizations—the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs—and the President’s Article II powers, supplemente...
The Obama administration both expanded removals to historic levels and layered policies meant to prioritize certain cases, but multiple human-rights groups, labor advocates, and legal organizations sa...
Official U.S. tallies for civilian deaths from Obama-era drone strikes are limited and conservative: the Obama administration published a government accounting that claimed between 64 and 116 civilian...
The best-supported figure for the large, congressionally approved White House modernization project tied to the Obama years is , but that number reflects funding approved in 2008 for a multi-year infr...
The Obama administration hosted official state dinners during its eight years in the White House; contemporary retrospectives and compiled lists published after his presidency converge on that total ....
The available documents do not record a single, definitive figure for the Obama administration’s total spending on White House staff and operations in 2009; . Reporting and government listings instead...