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• US Oct 16, 2026 Judge Blocks Trump White House Press Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump nominee, issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the administration from revoking hard passes for three news outlets while their First Amendment lawsuit proceeds.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 15, 2026 Treasury Fines Bank of America $1.21 Billion for Money-Laundering, Sanctions Failures The penalty, announced Oct. 13, is the third-largest in Treasury history and the largest ever levied by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 14, 2026 Federal Deficit Hit $2 Trillion in FY 2026, CBO Reports The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the gap widened $218 billion from the prior year, driven by spending that grew twice as fast as revenue, with interest costs on the national debt surging 11 percent.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 13, 2026 Federal Deficit Hits $2 Trillion in FY 2026, Highest Outside War or Recession The Congressional Budget Office put the full-year gap at $1.993 trillion, up 12% from fiscal 2025, as spending rose at twice the rate of revenue collection.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 12, 2026 Federal Deficit Hits $2 Trillion in Fiscal 2026, CBO Reports The Congressional Budget Office says the gap between federal spending and revenues widened by $218 billion from the prior year, driven by mandatory programs, defense and debt-service costs.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 11, 2026 U.S. Budget Deficit Hit $2 Trillion in Fiscal 2026, CBO Reports The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the full-year shortfall rose 12% from fiscal 2025, driven by surging mandatory spending and debt interest costs that outpaced a modest revenue gain.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 10, 2026 Federal Deficit Hits $2 Trillion in FY2026, CBO Reports The Congressional Budget Office put the fiscal year 2026 deficit at $2.0 trillion on Oct. 8, a $218 billion jump from the prior year driven by spending that outpaced revenue growth two to one.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 8, 2026 DHS Proposes $70,000 Fee on Foreign Student Work Program A new DHS proposed rule would require U.S. universities to pay up to $70,000 per international student before recommending them for Optional Practical Training employment authorization.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 7, 2026 Trump Signs Executive Order Allowing Tax-Exempt Dyed Diesel on U.S. Highways President Trump's order defers the 24.4-cent-per-gallon federal excise tax on dyed diesel through year-end, weeks before November midterm elections, as analysts question the relief's reach.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 6, 2026 9th Circuit Pauses Reinstatement of Seattle U.S. Attorney Trump Fired The appeals court granted the Justice Department an administrative stay Sunday, blocking Roger Rogoff from returning to the post while judges weigh the government's challenge to a lower court order.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 5, 2026 Progressive Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Bar Federal Agencies From Using License Plate Readers The Ban Flock Act, unveiled Oct. 2 by Sanders, Merkley and Ocasio-Cortez, would cut federal grants to any state or local government that keeps contracts with automated plate-reader firms.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 4, 2026 Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Bill to Strip Federal Funding From License Plate Reader Programs The Ban Flock Act would bar federal agencies from using automated license plate readers and cut off federal grants to state and local governments with contracts for the technology.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Oct 3, 2026 Judge Orders Trump Administration to Hand Over DOJ Memo Backing Lethal Boat Strikes A Manhattan federal judge rejected two of the administration's three secrecy arguments and gave the government two weeks to submit the classified Office of Legal Counsel memo for private review.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 30, 2026 Congress Averts Oct. 1 Shutdown, Hands Spending Fight to December President Trump signed a stopgap spending bill Sept. 2 that keeps the government funded through Dec. 11, pushing full-year appropriations decisions past the November midterm elections.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 28, 2026 Fed Raises Rates for First Time Since 2023, Signals Another Hike This Year The FOMC voted 12-0 on Sept. 16 to lift the federal funds rate a quarter point to 3.75%-4%, with most officials projecting at least one more increase before year's end.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 26, 2026 Fed Raises Rates for First Time Since 2023, Signals Another Hike This Year The Federal Open Market Committee voted 12-0 on Sept. 16 to lift the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75%-4%, citing persistent inflation tied to energy prices and tariffs.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 23, 2026 Trump Signs Stopgap Bill, Keeping Government Open Through Dec. 11 The bipartisan continuing resolution freezes an OMB grant rule, blocks Border Patrol fund transfers, and delays full fiscal year 2027 spending fights until after November midterms.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 22, 2026 Congress Punts FY2027 Spending to December as Defense-Nondefense Gap Stalls Full Bills With none of the 12 annual appropriations bills cleared by both chambers, lawmakers bought time through Dec. 11 but left the hardest fights for after the midterms.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 17, 2026 Fed Raises Rates for First Time Since 2023, Defying White House Pressure The FOMC voted 12-0 Wednesday to lift the federal funds rate by a quarter point to 3.75%-4%, hours before President Trump demanded the central bank cut rates to 1% or lower.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 16, 2026 Fed Raises Interest Rates for First Time Since 2023 as Warsh Moves to Tame Inflation The Federal Open Market Committee voted Wednesday to lift the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75%-4.00%, ending a three-year pause.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 15, 2026 Congress Punts FY2027 Budget to December, Leaves Senate Appropriations Stalled President Trump signed a stopgap spending bill Sept. 2, buying Congress until Dec. 11 to finish a budget that the Senate hasn't begun marking up.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 13, 2026 DHS Student Visa Rule Takes Effect Saturday, Ending Decades-Old Open-Stay Policy A Department of Homeland Security rule capping international student stays at four years takes effect Sept. 15, affecting an estimated 1.2 million foreign students now enrolled at U.S. universities.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 12, 2026 DHS Rule Ends Open-Ended Student Visa Status, Takes Effect Monday A Department of Homeland Security final rule scraps the decades-old 'duration of status' framework for international students and exchange visitors, capping most stays at four years starting Sept. 15.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 11, 2026 Congress Funds Government Through Dec. 11, Leaving FY27 Spending Fight for Lame Duck President Trump signed a bipartisan continuing resolution that keeps federal agencies running at current levels and pushes the full FY2027 appropriations battle past the November midterms.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 9, 2026 Trump Signs FY27 Stopgap, Pushing Budget Fight Past November Midterms President Trump signed a continuing resolution Sept. 2 funding the government through Dec. 11, averting a shutdown but deferring full-year spending fights to a compressed lame-duck window.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 6, 2026 Treasury, IRS Propose Rule to Strip Tax-Exempt Status From Private Schools That Use Race in Admissions The proposed regulation, published Sept. 4 in the Federal Register, could affect up to 18,000 private schools and take effect for taxable years beginning after May 31, 2027.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 5, 2026 Treasury and IRS Propose Rule to Strip Tax-Exempt Status From Private Schools Over Racial Discrimination The proposed regulation, published Sept. 3, would pull 501(c)(3) status from up to 18,000 private educational institutions found to discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Sep 1, 2026 Universities Sue DHS to Block Four-Year Student Visa Cap Before Sept. 15 Deadline A coalition of higher education groups and labor unions filed suit Aug. 18 in federal court in Massachusetts, asking a judge to vacate a DHS rule that ends open-ended student visa stays and takes effect this Monday.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 31, 2026 Fed Chair Warsh Warns on Inflation at Jackson Hole, Raises Prospect of Rate Hike In his first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh said underlying inflation has not meaningfully improved and the central bank may have more work to do, pushing traders to sharply raise the odds of a September rate hike.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 30, 2026 Warsh Warns on Inflation at Jackson Hole, Raises Prospect of Rate Hike The Fed chairman called inflation 'concerning' and stopped short of forward guidance, but markets sharply lifted odds of a September rate increase after Friday's speech.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 29, 2026 Fed Chair Warsh Warns Inflation Still Too High in First Jackson Hole Address Chair Kevin Warsh stopped short of committing to a September rate hike but sharpened his inflation warning Friday, sending traders to price a 55% chance of tightening at the next meeting.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 28, 2026 House Faces Senate CR Standoff With October Shutdown Deadline Closing In The Senate passed a bipartisan stopgap 90-6 to fund the government through Dec. 11, but the House passed its own rival CR through Dec. 4, and Congress returns from recess with roughly 15 legislative days to resolve the gap before a potential third shutdown.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 27, 2026 House Must Choose Between Competing CRs as Oct. 1 Shutdown Deadline Nears The Senate passed its own stopgap spending bill 90-6, rejecting the House version and sending the two chambers into recess with a funding gap still unresolved.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 26, 2026 House Returns to Vote on Senate CR to Avert Oct. 1 Shutdown The Senate passed a continuing resolution 90-6 to fund the government through Dec. 11; the House takes it up Aug. 31 with White House backing, but the two chambers' versions still differ.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 24, 2026 House Faces CR Deadline as Senate's 90-6 Funding Vote Sets Dec. 11 Target The Senate passed a continuing resolution on Aug. 8 to keep the government funded through December 11; the House must now act before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30 or risk a shutdown.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 21, 2026 30-Year Treasury Yield Hits 19-Year High as Deficit Fears Grip Bond Market The long bond touched 5.31% on Aug. 17, its highest level since 2007, as heavy government debt issuance, stubborn inflation, and weak auction demand rattled investors.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 20, 2026 Fed Minutes Show Three Dissents, Broad Hawkish Sentiment at July Meeting Minutes from the Federal Reserve's July 28-29 meeting, released Wednesday, reveal a 9-3 vote to hold rates and an internal push to raise them if inflation stays elevated.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 19, 2026 Senate Passes Stopgap Funding Bill 90-6, Blocking OMB Grants Rule as House Weighs Rival Version The Senate's bipartisan continuing resolution funds the government through Dec. 11 and freezes a disputed OMB rule on federal grantmaking; the House returns Aug. 31 to reconcile its own, narrower measure.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 18, 2026 Senate Passes FY2027 Stopgap 90-6, Sending Shutdown Fight to House The Senate's continuing resolution funds the government through Dec. 11 and blocks an OMB grant-oversight rule, but the House must still reconcile its own Dec. 4 version before Oct. 1.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 17, 2026 House Democrat Seeks Hearing on Staffing Cuts at Federal Statistical Agencies Rep. Bobby Scott is pushing for a September committee hearing after the BLS dropped monthly state-level jobs data and all 13 principal statistical agencies reported headcount reductions.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 15, 2026 Senate Passes FY2027 Stopgap 90-6, Sending House and Senate to Resolve Competing CR Versions Before Oct. 1 Deadline The Senate voted overwhelmingly Aug. 8 to fund the government through Dec. 11, but differences with the House version must be reconciled before fiscal year 2027 begins.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 14, 2026 Senate Passes FY2027 Stopgap 90-6, But House Version Differs The Senate approved its own continuing resolution to fund the government through Dec. 11, creating a gap with the House-passed bill that runs only through Dec. 4, with Sept. 30 deadline looming.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 14, 2026 Senate Passes Bipartisan CR to Fund Government Through Dec. 11, Sending Bill to House The Senate voted 90-6 on Aug. 8 to extend federal funding past the November midterm elections, but the House must still act before the Sept. 30 deadline.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 10, 2026 Senate Agriculture Committee Fails to Advance Farm Bill on 10-11 Vote SNAP cost-sharing dispute breaks almost entirely along party lines, stranding the Agricultural Act of 2026 in committee until at least September.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 7, 2026 Senate Farm Bill Fails Committee Vote as SNAP Dispute Stalls Legislation The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 10-11 on Aug. 6 against advancing the Agricultural Act of 2026, leaving the farm bill stuck in committee until at least September over a deadlock on food-stamp cost-sharing.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 6, 2026 USTR Imposes Forced-Labor Tariffs on 60 Economies After Supreme Court Scrapped IEEPA Authority New Section 301 duties of 10% or 12.5% took effect July 24 on imports covering 99.4% of U.S. trade, replacing tariff authority the Supreme Court struck down in February.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Aug 4, 2026 Senate Bipartisan CR Blocks OMB Grant Rule, Funds Government Through Dec. 11 Senate Appropriations leaders Collins and Murray unveiled a stopgap spending bill Sunday that extends current funding levels and halts a Trump administration rule critics say would politicize federal grant awards.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 26, 2026 25 States Sue Trump Administration Over Medicaid Cuts in One Big Beautiful Bill Act A coalition of 25 states and Washington, D.C., filed suit in federal court in late June challenging the administration's implementation of Medicaid provisions in the sweeping reconciliation law signed last July.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 25, 2026 Medicaid Work-Requirement Rule Takes Effect July 31 as States Scramble to Comply A CMS interim final rule locks in 80-hour monthly work requirements for Medicaid expansion enrollees, giving states until Jan. 1, 2027 to comply and prompting a race among early-adopter states.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 24, 2026 Major Housing Bill Becomes Law Without Trump's Signature After Constitutional Clock Runs Out The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act took effect July 11 after President Trump refused to sign it, using the bill as leverage for an unrelated elections measure that stalled in the Senate.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 19, 2026 Bipartisan Housing Bill Becomes Law Without Trump's Signature The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a sweeping bipartisan package targeting housing supply and investor purchases of single-family homes, took effect July 11 after President Trump neither signed nor vetoed it.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 18, 2026 Housing Bill Becomes Law Without Trump's Signature, Curbing Investor Home Purchases The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the first major bipartisan federal housing package since the 1990s, took effect July 11 after President Trump let it lapse into law unsigned.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 16, 2026 Housing Bill Becomes Law Without Trump's Signature, Restricts Investor Home Purchases The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act took effect July 11 after President Trump neither signed nor vetoed it, marking the first major bipartisan federal housing package enacted since the 1990s.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 15, 2026 Republicans Split on Third Reconciliation Bill as Trump Presses $350B Defense Push President Trump is renewing calls for a $350 billion defense spending package via budget reconciliation, but two senior Senate Republican appropriators say a third such bill is 'not an option.'
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 14, 2026 House Appropriations Panel Cuts HUD Budget as Shutdown Clock Ticks The House Appropriations Committee approved a FY2026 housing and transport spending bill on a party-line 35-28 vote, proposing a $939 million cut to HUD while Congress races an October 1 shutdown deadline.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 13, 2026 Fed Names Andreessen, Mankiw, McMillon to Warsh's Five Monetary Policy Task Forces Chairman Kevin Warsh on July 9 released the roster of 15 outside experts who will review the central bank's inflation framework, balance sheet, data practices, communications, and jobs policy.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 12, 2026 Fed Names Outside Advisers to Lead Five Monetary Policy Task Forces Chairman Kevin Warsh filled the review panels July 9 with economists, former central bankers, and tech investors, setting year-end deadlines for recommendations to the FOMC.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 11, 2026 Fed's Warsh Names 15 Outside Advisers to Lead Five-Panel Policy Review Chair Kevin Warsh on July 9 named economists, executives and former central bankers to five independent task forces that will recommend changes to how the Fed conducts monetary policy by year-end.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 9, 2026 25 States Sue Over Medicaid Work Rules as OBBBA Cuts Near Key Deadlines A coalition of Democratic-led states filed suit June 29 over Medicaid work requirements in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as states and federal agencies race to implement a wave of eligibility and funding changes set to take effect later this year.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 7, 2026 OBBBA's July 4 Deadline Closes Key Tax Credit Window for Wind and Solar The One Big Beautiful Bill Act's construction-start deadline passed Saturday, cutting off a broader eligibility window for federal clean electricity tax credits on new wind and solar projects.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jul 3, 2026 EEOC Scraps Biden-Era Plan, Targets DEI Programs and Drops Disparate-Impact Claims The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission adopted a new National Enforcement Plan on June 4 that abandons disparate-impact enforcement and puts employer DEI programs in its cross-hairs through fiscal year 2029.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jun 29, 2026 Warsh Launches Five Fed Task Forces, Drops Forward Guidance at First Meeting New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh held rates steady June 17 and announced sweeping internal reviews covering communications, the balance sheet, and inflation policy, while refusing to submit his own rate projections.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent
• US Jun 28, 2026 Fed's Warsh Drops Forward Guidance, Launches Five Task Forces to Overhaul Central Bank New Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh held rates steady at his first FOMC meeting June 17 and unveiled five task forces to rethink everything from the Fed's communications to its $6.7 trillion balance sheet.
  By Marcus Reyes, Senior Correspondent

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