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Legal challenges, court orders, and policy analyses in 2025–2025 document numerous actions by President Donald Trump that critics and some courts describe as unlawful: federal judges ordered certain O...
President Trump has been accused of multiple statutory and criminal violations while in office, including alleged unlawful removal of an inspector general, impoundment of FEMA appropriations, and mass...
Federal reporting and advocacy documents say the Trump administration targeted hundreds to thousands of federally funded research awards, including cancer grants: reporting cites about $1–2.3 billion ...
The Biden administration’s budget proposals sought steady-to-moderate ICE resources — including funding to support about 34,000 detention beds, $225 million for removals/transportation, and a $4.7 bil...
The immediate cause of the 2025 government shutdown is a congressional deadlock over stopgap funding tied to and the structure of a continuing resolution, with Republicans asking for a clean short-ter...
Congressional “pork” for FY2025 shows up as earmarks and legislatively directed projects worth hundreds of millions in specific line items — for example, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) lists...
The authoritative full text of H.R.4552 (the House FY26 THUD appropriations bill) can be read on the Library of Congress Congress.gov bill page for H.R.4552, which hosts the official bill text . Alter...
Available reporting gives multiple figures for ICE funding but no single definitive percentage of the DHS budget that ICE represents; the FY2026 ICE request/justification lists $11.3 billion for ICE ,...
The funding bills discussed by House Republicans and later broader “reconciliation” packages prioritize large increases in enforcement, detention, hiring, and physical barriers — including explicit pr...
The evidence in the materials provided is fragmented and inconsistent: available reporting and committee materials show the House did pass at least a handful of individual appropriations or funding-re...
Republican leaders presented the as a short-term, government-preserving measure to avoid disruption and provide time for full appropriations, arguing it keeps spending at current levels and prevents h...
A clear, year-by-year list of ICE’s annual budgets from 2009 through 2017 is not provided in the documents supplied; the available reporting supplies only scattered data points and trend summaries rat...
Congress has launched a mix of formal letters, committee hearings, funding maneuvers and new legislation to scrutinize the Veterans Affairs’ planned workforce reductions and related contractor actions...
Congress faces a compressed window to finish major budget work before the 2026 plan year: FY2026 funding must be set by the Sept. 30 fiscal-year deadline, and House and Senate calendars show large dis...
Congress’s appropriations process is a multi-step system that starts with the President’s budget request and proceeds through a congressional budget resolution, 302(a)/302(b) allocations, and the work...
Reporting indicates both the House FY26 THUD appropriations bill (H.R.4552) and the Senate THUD discussion include language that would expand HUD and PHA waiver or alternative-requirement authority fo...
The FY2026 appropriations cycle contains competing provisions that would either preserve existing tenant protections for Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) holders or open the door to rolling them back: the...
In 2025 several competing legislative and budgetary proposals emerged to address imminent expirations and funding gaps for Section 8 (Housing Choice Vouchers), ranging from a White House plan to repla...
There is no evidence in the supplied reporting that any congressional votes or continuing resolutions during a government shutdown took place in January 2025; the sources instead describe a 2025 shutd...
The phrase “Elon Musk cure for neurophrooy” cannot be verified as stated because none of the provided reporting references a condition called “neurophrooy” or any credible claim that Elon Musk has dis...