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Weekly digest: CFTC awards $8M+ to five whistleblowers, SEC posts second-largest payout in program history, DOJ OIG audits BOP, and IG nomination pipeline continues to refill after 2025 turnover.
Senate moves to pass S. 2, the Secure America Act; three FY27 appropriations bills mark up; House Financial Services grills prudential regulators; House Foreign Affairs hearing on CCP role in…
TIJ's daily scan of the Federal Register: Executive Order 14407 rewrites the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, the SEC proposes to rescind climate-related disclosure rules, CMS implements Medicaid community-engagement requirements, and…
TIJ's weekly digest: a Pentagon IG report on stalled civilian-harm policies, a $53M SEC whistleblower payout, record DOJ False Claims Act recoveries, and EPA retaliation complaints.
GAO finds the Pentagon eliminated 78,000 civilian jobs without consistent impact analysis, while auditors flag corporate-transparency gaps, $250M in BOP First Step Act spending, and municipal collapses in three states.
House Appropriations advanced a FY27 Interior bill cutting EPA roughly 20%; Senate prepared a 2:15 p.m. vote on S.J. Res. 188; Oversight's Bondi contempt and prediction-markets tracks remain active.
Two new Trump executive orders top the Federal Register: realigning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with peer nations and rescinding 50-year-old off-road vehicle restrictions. The SEC moves to rescind climate…
The Defense Department transmitted ten arms-sales notifications to Congress, the CFTC issued a substituted-compliance order for Goldman Sachs Paris, and OFAC added counterterrorism designations — a snapshot of the May…
Senate invokes cloture 51-45 to advance Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve chairmanship as Capitol Hill convenes nuclear-stewardship, grid-permitting, and AI-in-banking hearings.
Commerce opens the Section 232 pharmaceutical onshoring window; Treasury, Labor, and HHS propose new fertility excepted-benefit category; EPA, FCC, DEA, and CBP rules — May 13 Federal Register summary.