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A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a setback to the Trump administration’s plan to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting for the November midterms, noting that the legal fight over the executive order barring USPS from sending mail-in ballots to certain voters is ongoing and not yet resolved.
Trump’s administration issued an executive order overturning longstanding federal vaccine recommendations and urging states to update school vaccination requirements, a move tied to a Washington Post investigation showing at least 5.2 million kindergarten-age kids live in counties where measles vaccination rates fall below herd immunity.
President Donald Trump signed an order authorizing select private companies to carry out government-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign criminal hacking groups, a shift from the traditional approach that reserved such actions for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies. The plan includes a DOJ-DHS coordination center to oversee participating firms and aims to disrupt cybercrime, but it raises potential legal and geopolitical risks and explicitly excludes operations against foreign governments.
President Donald Trump is seeking ways to preserve major policies after adverse Supreme Court rulings on tariffs, birthright citizenship and the Fed, through new tariffs, renewed efforts to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, and executive orders to limit birthright citizenship. Experts say these moves push the court’s rulings without signaling outright defiance, aiming to keep his priorities alive while the court’s authority remains in play.
President Trump signed two executive orders aimed at narrowing birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court rejected his bid to end it outright. One order tightens scrutiny of birth tourism and surrogacy to deter foreign birthright claims, directing DHS and the State Department to deny visas and related benefits. The other narrows which children born in the U.S. qualify for citizenship, listing categories where birthright status would not apply. Legal challenges are expected, with critics arguing the moves bypass the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, while supporters say they close loopholes and protect the 14th Amendment.
Following the Supreme Court's decision upholding birthright citizenship, Trump signed two executive orders to narrow who is automatically a citizen—excluding some 'alien enemies' and those born after visa fraud—but constitutional scholars say he has no unilateral authority to do so, and the measures are likely to face lawsuits and impact far fewer people than prior attempts.
Trump signs two executive orders aimed at narrowing birthright citizenship—expanding prohibitions for babies born to non-citizen parents and banning birth tourism—despite a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that birthright citizenship cannot be ended. The administration argues the moves fall under presidential authority in the Immigration and Nationality Act, while experts warn some provisions may face constitutional scrutiny; birth tourism is estimated to involve tens of thousands of births annually, though the overall impact remains debated.
A fast-moving day of updates centers on the Trump administration's push to redefine birthright citizenship via executive orders, while a slew of other Washington developments unfold—from a vandalism case involving the Reflecting Pool being dismissed, to lawsuits over presidential tax protections, fights over farm bill and hemp provisions in funding legislation, offshore wind leases being canceled in favor of gas investments, and Mitch McConnell's discharge from rehab—highlighting a chaotic, policy-dense news cycle in Washington.
President Trump signed two executive orders aimed at narrowing birthright citizenship in several scenarios and intensifying the crackdown on birth tourism, including limits on births tied to foreign diplomatic staff, alien-enemy groups, births in U.S. territories (pending congressional action), and births driven by birth-tourism schemes. The administration argues these exceptions are permitted under long-standing interpretations of the 14th Amendment, but the moves are expected to face court challenges; any change to territorial citizenship would require Congress, and critics say enforcement remains the key issue.
Trump asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an executive order that would tighten mail-in voting for the November midterms; a federal appeals court blocked the order, saying it would sow confusion and disenfranchise voters, a decision supported by Biden- and Bush-appointed judges and opposed by a Trump appointee, as the administration and states wage a high-stakes fight over voting access ahead of key elections.
New York became the first state to pause new data-center construction for a year after Gov. Hochul signed an executive order, citing concerns about energy prices and water use as regulators weigh tighter rules on AI infrastructure expansion.
A federal judge blocked key provisions of President Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting mail ballots, ruling the president lacks authority to limit who can receive them. The decision comes a month after another judge had allowed parts of the order to stand, and the case remains tied up in ongoing litigation, including actions in Washington, D.C.
President Trump signed two executive orders to accelerate U.S. quantum computing development and move the federal government to quantum-resistant encryption, aiming for a 'scientifically relevant' quantum computer by 2028 and mandating a shift to post-quantum cryptography by end-2031, with pilots at NIST and DOE facilities and increased cyber-security protections; the policy aligns with crypto industry preparations for a quantum era and the risk Bitcoin faces from quantum attacks.
Trump signed two executive orders to speed domestic quantum development: a government-wide effort to deliver a working quantum computer for scientific research by 2028 and to deploy quantum sensors/networks within five years, and a plan to migrate federal systems to quantum-resistant cryptography by 2031, backed by a $2 billion Commerce funding push) with quantum-tech stocks like IONQ, QUBT and IBM rising after hours.
President Trump signed an executive order reclassifying about 8,000 senior federal workers into Schedule F, expanding at-will firing rights for policy-focused staff. The move is part of a broader effort to transform the federal workforce and has sparked lawsuits arguing it would politicize the civil service, though officials say it will not recreate the spoils system and that the majority of those affected are at or near GS-15 pay grade. The government initially projected far more positions could be reclassified, but the actual impact is smaller.