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signed at least one major FY2026 funding vehicle—the continuing appropriations/minibus package H.R. 5371—in November 2025, and say he signed that month as well; separate Republican committee releases ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ,...
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 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...
The impasse blocking full‑year appropriations is driven first by competing topline philosophies— generally trim spending toward while (and many Democrats) favor higher, bipartisan levels—and second by...
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...
A complete, year-by-year comparison of ional appropriations for versus the Obama Administration’s budget requests from 2009–2017 is not available in the supplied reporting; the sources document genera...
signed — the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 — into law on November 12, 2025, recorded as P.L. 119-37 a...
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...
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...
The House of Representatives is central to how a federal government shutdown can begin because , and failure there to enact regular appropriations or a continuing resolution creates the funding gap th...
There is no direct citation in the provided material, so it is not possible to produce the exact number "according to congress.gov" from these sources; the available reporting documents, however, conf...
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...