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Seven House Democrats broke with most of their party to vote for the spending bill — a measure that keeps roughly flat and includes about $10 billion for -and-customs-enforcement">Immigration and Cust...
Federal REAL ID rules require applicants to prove identity, date of birth, Social Security number, two proofs of residence, and lawful status; for U.S. citizens that lawful-status requirement is satis...
A flurry of recent local and partisan reporting ties large outbound cash movements at several airports to couriers of Somali descent, but there is no direct, corroborated mainstream account in the pro...
There is no contemporaneous, sourced reporting among the documents provided that was just stopped at –St. Paul International Airport carrying $800,000; the coverage instead documents a broader federal...
REAL ID is a federally compliant version of a state-issued driver’s license or ID that meets security standards set by the 2005 REAL ID Act and — beginning May 7, 2025 — is required to board domestic ...
and other federal immigration officers are legally permitted to use “” — commonly described in reporting as tear gas, pepper spray/OC, pepper balls and similar crowd-control agents — under U.S. law an...
Twelve to fifteen U.S. jurisdictions already let residents store state IDs or mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) in smartphone wallets or state apps for some official uses, and at least 14 states are acc...
Across the supplied analyses, the most consistent estimate is that roughly of the federal budget (and therefore about 13% of federal tax dollars) goes to national defense in recent years, though other...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act () massively expanded ’s resource base—reporting cites figures ranging from roughly $45 billion for detention expansion to a roughly $75 billion or $170 billion characte...
Five U.S. states currently issue (EDLs) or Enhanced IDs (EIDs): , , , and , and those cards are accepted by federal agencies for travel and purposes (; ) . While the core purpose—proof of identity and...
Five U.S. states currently issue Enhanced Driver’s Licenses or Enhanced ID cards (EDL/EID): Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington, and those cards are explicitly recognized by federal...
Seven Democrats crossed party lines to vote for the appropriations bill; reporting identifies who they were but contains only limited, specific public explanations for that choice, with Representative...
Federal officials are investigating roughly $700 million in U.S. cash that the Transportation Security Administration flagged in passenger luggage leaving Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport ...
can effectively cut off annual appropriated funding for by refusing to pass a DHS spending bill that includes ICE’s budget, but doing so would not automatically stop ICE operations and would carry sig...
Federal reporting shows that Transportation Security Administration screening flagged nearly $700 million in U.S. cash detected in passengers’ luggage leaving Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airpor...
A number of states formally resisted REAL ID in the past: reporting and advocacy organizations say about 25 states either passed statutes or resolutions rejecting REAL ID, and at least 15 states enact...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump proposed $10,000 bonus payments for some air-traffic and other front-line federal workers who stayed on the job during the 43-day government shutdown, ...
Federal REAL ID rules require either a REAL ID‑compliant state driver’s license/ID or another federally accepted identity document — most commonly a valid U.S. passport or passport card, U.S. military...
Multiple major reports say has been sharing airline passenger information with on a recurring basis, enabling ICE to cross‑check travelers against deportation databases and — in some cases — send agen...
Several jurisdictions allow or are piloting , but as of 2024 no country broadly requires a purely digital national ID as the sole accepted document for international travel. The European Union is adva...