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2025 deficit drops slightly to $1.78 trillion
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-17 · Newsletter Article · 2,613 words
GOP backs Trump amid possible military action in Venezuela
Shutdown likely to extend into next week
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-16 · Newsletter Article · 1,942 words
Most reporters out as Pentagon confiscates press badges
Trump’s War on Solar & Wind: A Timeline of Recent Federal Actions
Third Way · 2025-10-16 · Memo · 1,422 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Democrats Are Starting to Get It On Energy Costs
Third Way · 2025-10-16 · Memo · 892 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Explaining America’s Child Care Problem
Third Way · 2025-10-16 · Report · 2,553 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Supreme Court takes up 'blockbuster' case on minority districts
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-15 · Newsletter Article · 63 words
Florida Republican faces restraining order over ex-girlfriend
After 3 weeks, Grijalva still in lawmaker limbo
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-14 · Newsletter Article · 90 words
Shutdown Day 14 arrives with little hope for solution
Shutdown rolls on with no end in sight
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-13 · Newsletter Article · 63 words
Who needs a Congress? Not the Trump White House.
GOP Senators back Trump on National Guard deployments
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-10 · Newsletter Article · 2,181 words
Government shutdown will stretch into next week
Hype and harm: Why we must ask harder questions about AI and its alignment with human values
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-09 · Article · 3,444 words · PDF available
Whose values should AI align with? Malihe Alikhani explores context-sensitive AI training and deployment to improve safety and fairness
How do tariffs hurt the dollar?
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-09 · Article · 4,673 words · PDF available
Roughly two thirds of countries on Earth stabilize their currency against the U.S. dollar. The relationship has benefits in both directions: Smaller countries enjoy better stability for their national...
Hallways get heated as shutdown continues
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-09 · Newsletter Article · 1,912 words
Democrat-led filibuster blocks funding bill for a sixth time
AI and Emerging Technologies in Health Care
Third Way · 2025-10-09 · Memo · 3,305 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Making Republicans’ Big Beautiful Blunder Stick with Swing Voters
Third Way · 2025-10-09 · Memo · 187 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Debunking Myths About the Democratic Party
Third Way · 2025-10-09 · Memo · 321 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
A Middle East outlook with Senior Fellow Dafna H. Rand
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-08 · Article · 1,331 words
Dafna H. Rand discusses the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy leverage and influence, and America’s role in the world.
Donald Trump's digital mercantilism
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-08 · Article · 1,407 words · PDF available
Tom Wheeler discusses how President Trump is seeking to assert dominion over the regulatory sovereignty of other nations for Big Tech.
SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-08 · Article · 5,538 words · PDF available
Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach analyze how SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect the program’s response to recessions.
Speaker flip flops on swearing in new Democrat
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-08 · Newsletter Article · 62 words
Congress treads water as government shutdown rolls on
What If the US Centralized All Federal Infrastructure Financing?
Third Way · 2025-10-08 · Blog · 1,477 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
The Looming $661 Billion Cut to Hospitals
Third Way · 2025-10-08 · Memo · 751 words
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social policy,...
Reimagining the future of data and AI labor in the Global South
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-07 · Article · 2,121 words · PDF available
Michelle Du and Chinasa Okolo discuss the content moderation and data labeling behind social media and AI platforms.
Ukraine's energy sector is a key battleground in the war with Russia
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-07 · Article · 4,934 words · PDF available
The Ukrainian energy sector has proved to be a key element in the struggle for its sovereignty against Russian aggression.
Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to deploy troops in big cities
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-07 · Newsletter Article · 2,302 words
Democrats sound alarm: “This is a dangerous moment"
Trump tariffs top the docket as Supreme Court starts new term
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-06 · Newsletter Article · 65 words
Senate returns with no end in sight to shutdown
Government shutdown heads into next week
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-04 · Newsletter Article · 1,098 words
Democrats lead filibuster for a fourth time against stopgap funding bill
The United Nations at 80: Does multilateralism still matter?
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-03 · Article · 3,717 words · PDF available
The 80th UN General Assembly is underway in New York City, in session from just after Labor Day into December. The annual High-Level Week, when world leaders gather, ended in September. To share their...
Recent tariffs threaten residential construction
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-03 · Article · 973 words · PDF available
The U.S. faces a housing shortagemeasured in the millionsof units, and families are struggling with historically high rents and home prices. The Trump administration has expressed agoal to reduce the ...
Shutdown likely to extend into next week
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-03 · Newsletter Article · 1,954 words
Senate to vote again today on House-passed funding bill
Senators look for a shutdown off-ramp
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-02 · Newsletter Article · 1,657 words
Democrats again block temporary funding plan in Senate
Who falls short: The scope and spread of family need
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-02 · Article · 3,171 words
Jeffrey C. Fuhrer documents how rising costs outpaced incomes from 2020 to 2023, leaving many U.S. families unable to meet basic needs.
TikTok may not be Chinese-owned anymore, but there still is a privacy problem
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-02 · Article · 1,354 words
Nicol Turner Lee discusses how President Trump's deal to keep TikTok functional in the U.S. doesn't assuage all privacy concerns.
Trump threatens federal job cuts as shutdown begins
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-01 · Newsletter Article · 2,068 words
Democrat-led filibuster blocks temporary funding bill in Senate
Copyright Notice
Heritage Foundation · 2025-10-01 · Article · 203 words
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Senate Consideration of Presidential Nominations: Committee and Floor Procedure
Congressional Research Service · 2025-10-01 · Reports · 9,807 words · PDF available
Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution provides that the President shall appoint officers of the United States “by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.” Senate committees play a central ...
Congress, Trump steamroll towards a shutdown
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-30 · Newsletter Article · 89 words
Trump uses fake AI video to mock top Democrats
Armed Forces Compensation During a Lapse in Appropriations
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Posts · 1,036 words · PDF available
Compensation for members of the Armed Forces (i.e., Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard) is funded through annual appropriations to personnel-related line items in accoun...
Government Shutdowns and Legislative Branch Operations: Frequently Asked Questions
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Posts · 1,054 words · PDF available
This Insight provides brief answers to selected questions related to legislative branch operations during a lapse in appropriations. For a general explanation of the Antideficiency Act, including Tit...
Iran’s Program and U.N. Sanctions Reimposition
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Resources · 1,730 words · PDF available
U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015), which the council adopted on July 20, 2015, implements the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and contains other provisions concerning Iran’s nucl...
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA): An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Resources · 1,658 words · PDF available
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA; P.L. 107-252; 52 U.S.C. §§20901-21145) is perhaps the closest thing in federal law to a general election administration statute. It is (1) more wide-ranging in...
FY2025 NDAA: Reserve Component End-Strength
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Posts · 948 words · PDF available
Background Under 10 U.S.C. §115(a) Congress sets the maximum size (i.e., end-strength) of the active and reserve components of the Armed Forces annually, typically in a National Defense Authorization ...
FY2025 NDAA: Active Component End-Strength
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Posts · 979 words · PDF available
Background Under 10 U.S.C. §115(a), Congress sets the maximum size of the active component of the Armed Forces annually, typically in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The active componen...
Section 232 National Security Tariffs on Copper Imports
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Posts · 1,082 words · PDF available
Congress has constitutional authority over foreign commerce and tariffs. Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. §1862, as amended) authorizes the President to take action if the Sec...
Realignment of DOD’s Chief Digital and AI Officer (CDAO)
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Posts · 1,028 words · PDF available
On August 14, 2025, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, who is now using “Deputy Secretary of War” as a “secondary title” under Executive Order 14347 dated September 5, 2025, issued a memo “[d...
U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control: Overview and Potential Considerations for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Resources · 1,632 words · PDF available
The United States has periodically sought to advance its national security interests through the negotiation and conclusion of nuclear arms control agreements with its adversaries. Throughout 2025, Pr...
Access to Consumer Financial Data: Open Banking and the CFPB’s Section 1033 Rule
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Resources · 1,701 words · PDF available
Open banking refers to a relationship among consumers, financial services providers, and authorized third parties that enables consumers to transfer their information electronically from one firm to a...
DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Appropriations, FY2026
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Resources · 1,264 words · PDF available
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is responsible for renewable energy and end-use energy efficiency technology development. Other activiti...
National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A): A Summary
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Resources · 1,653 words · PDF available
The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) is a 23-million-acre area in northern Alaska owned and administered by the federal government. Originally designated as an emergency oil reserve for th...
Crypto Legislation: An Overview of H.R. 3633, the CLARITY Act
Congressional Research Service · 2025-09-30 · Posts · 1,027 words · PDF available
On June 23, 2025, the House Committees on Financial Services and Agriculture reported H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (or the CLARITY Act). The bill would give the Commodity Fu...
Democratic Primary Voters Still Touch Grass
Third Way · 2025-09-30 · Memo · 2,320 words
The 2028 primary is still a long way away, but countless hopefuls are already floating trial balloons, and gallons of ink has already been spilled profiling potential 2028 candidates, including their ...