Alerts and Updates

Under a new directive from the Office of Management and Budget, the Census Bureau is going to implement new answers to the question about race and ethnicity.

The saga of trouble at the Social Security Administration’s chief watchdog continues: Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office are back in the news after the release of a preliminary investigation that raised concerns about the office’s past failures to properly notify (or in some cases, notify at all) people who had received disability overpayments before levying exorbitant penalties against them, as part of the office’s anti-fraud program.

This week, POGO commemorated Sunshine Week by shedding light on the shameful lack of transparency around deaths in law enforcement custody — a crisis that no one, not even the government, knows the full scope of.  

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado could not bar former President Donald Trump from appearing on the primary ballots.

All eyes were on Texas this week with both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump making coinciding visits to the U.S.-Mexico border to deliver pitches on their plans to increase border security, days after a Gallup poll revealed immigration to be Americans’ most pressing concern.

We recently got our hands on an audit that revealed a troubling gap in Army personnel’s awareness of anti-extremism rules.  

Surveillance bill sparks chaos in the House 

On Thursday, the Supreme Court justices heard arguments on whether former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the January 6, 2021, insurrection disqualifies him from appearing on Colorado state ballots, a case that could have implications for all states.

Early last week, the Supreme Court issued an order granting the Biden Administration — namely, Border Patrol agents — permission to cut down the concertina wire barriers that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been erecting along the Rio Grande River.

Next week in the Senate.

The Supreme Court has set a date to hear arguments on former President Donald Trump’s potential disqualification from presidential election ballots

Setting up for a pivotal showdown.