Alerts and Updates

On Thursday, the House of Representatives’ Committee on House Administration held a hearing on the threat of foreign interference in American elections.

On Thursday, the Senate passed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill, renewing federal aviation programs and establishing new safety and consumer protections for the next five years.

We’re thrilled to share big news with you: On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would effectively close the data broker loophole.

On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including Section 702. 

Over the past few years, we’ve been raising the alarm about the dangers of a second coming of Schedule F, a Trump Administration-era executive order that would have removed job protections for tens of thousands of merit-based federal employees if President Joe Biden hadn’t rescinded it.

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.