Policy
Tracking legislation, executive action, and regulatory changes that reshape American life — with the receipts.
Seven Days to the FISA Sunset. The Warrant-Floor Amendment Is Still Not on the Leadership Schedule.
The 10-day bridge expires next Thursday. Lee, Wyden, and Paul have the amendment text — what they don't have is the floor time from leadership.
The Foreign-Gift Rule That Didn't Need a Floor Vote
A Department of Education notice opened on April 15. It reaches every college that takes federal money. It did not require a single vote. For constitutional conservatives who follow the separation-of-powers fight, this is the mechanism worth watching.
The Foreign-Gift Rule That Didn't Need a Floor Vote
Congress has stalled the DETERRENT Act for over a year. The Department of Education just opened a Federal Register comment window that achieves much of the same effect — without a House-Senate fight, and without a floor vote.
60 Members of Congress Want to Ban a Religion's Legal Traditions. Here's the Caucus.
American law has accommodated Jewish beit din, Catholic canon tribunals, and Christian biblical mediation for two centuries. A new 60-member House caucus is advancing a four-bill slate aimed at one religion's legal traditions. The precedent reaches every tradition.
T-Minus Four to the Hancock Voucher Hearing. Three Signals Before Friday.
Friday's hearing is the highest-consequence legal event on the 30-day calendar. Three signals between Monday and Thursday will telegraph how the court approaches it.
Section 702's 13-Day Stopgap: What Changes for Your Phone, Email, and Location Data
A 13-day stopgap keeps warrantless surveillance authority alive through April 30 — and changes what reaches your phone, email, and location data starting Monday.
The Senate Has a Bipartisan Warrant Coalition. April 30 Decides the FISA Fight.
The Senate has the votes — Lee, Paul, Wyden, Heinrich, and a dozen colleagues already on record. The question is whether leadership lets them.
The Warrant Revolt: Three Republicans Collapsed the FISA Extension at 2 A.M.
A clean 18-month extension of warrantless surveillance powers collapsed on the House floor. After midnight negotiations, the chamber passed only a 13-day stopgap — and the warrant fight is unfinished.
Congress Is About to Give $1.5 Trillion to an Agency That Can't Pass an Audit
The Pentagon can't account for $4.65 trillion in assets — and tomorrow the White House asks Congress for its largest budget ever.
$1.5 Trillion for Defense. $73 Billion in Domestic Cuts. And the Watchdogs Got Cut Too.
The FY2027 budget proposes the largest defense increase in decades — while slashing the agencies that audit how the money gets spent.
The Pentagon Gets a 43% Raise. Housing, Schools, and EPA Get the Axe.
The largest single-year defense spending jump in decades goes before Congress Tuesday — with no independent watchdog at full strength to scrutinize it.
Congress Wants to Cut Its Own Watchdog by Half. During a $7 Trillion Spending Year.
The House voted to slash the GAO budget by 49% — the office that returns $114 for every dollar Congress spends on it.