Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 3/22/25

3/24 - HUD Secretary Scott Turner, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Establish Partnership to End Illegal Alien Exploitation of Housing Programs (HUD; direct to MOU)

3/24 - Social Security Increases Transparency and Accountability (SSA, with links to resources; see also, MarketWatch article)

3/24 - Postal Service Postmaster General/ CEO Leadership Transition (USPS; see also, Board of Governors statement)

3/25 - Commissioner Gomez on Civil Rights and Fairness (FCC)

3/25 - USDA Delivers on Rural Energy Commitments, Provides Path for Applicants to Support U.S. Energy Independence (USDA; see also, EarthJustice article)

3/25 - TRICARE Online Patient Portal decommissioning: Download your health records now (USSF)

3/26 - U.S. Department of Education Opens Revised Income-Driven Repayment Plan and Loan Consolidation Applications for Borrowers (ED; direct to website; see also, Forbes article)

3/27 - Secretary Wright Acts to Remove Red Tape, Accelerate Mission Execution at America’s National Weapons and Science Labs (DOE)

3/27 - Attorney General Pamela Bondi Launches Compliance Review Investigation into Admissions Policies at Stanford University and Several University of California Schools, Advancing President Trump’s Mandate to End Illegal DEI Policies (DOJ; see also, AP article)

3/27 - HHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again (HHS; direct to factsheet; see also, NBC News article)

3/27 - Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! (LOC)

3/27 - SBA Initiates Actions to Reverse Biden-Era Mismanagement of Core 7(a) Lending Program (SBA)

3/27 - SEC Votes to End Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules (SEC; see also, Forbes article)

3/27 - Correcting the Record about Social Security Office Closings (SSA; see also, 3/7 AP article)

3/28 - CFPB Offers Regulatory Relief for Small Loan Providers (CFPB; see also 6/14/24 CFPB press release via IA)

3/28 - The Department of Justice Announces Affirmative Litigation Against the American Federation of Government Employees to Protect National Security (DOJ; see also, Federal News Network article)

3/28 - U.S. Department of Education Directs Schools to Comply with Parental Rights Laws (ED; see also, Chalkbeat article)

3/28 - FAA Moves to Protect Aircraft Owners’ Private Information (FAA; see also, Quartz/Yahoo article)

3/28 - Agencies Announce Intent to Rescind 2023 Community Reinvestment Act Final Rule (FDIC; see also, CRA rule pages from FFIEC and FRB)

3/28 - On Delivering an America First Foreign Assistance Program (State; see also, ABC News article)

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.

None this week

See full weekly list of Congressional hearings on congress.gov.

3/25 - Worldwide Threats (S Intelligence, with linked 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community; see also, 3/26 H Intelligence hearing  | The Atlantic article | Ranking Members Connolly and Frost Launch Investigation Into Trump Administration Officials Sharing War Plans in An Insecure Group Chat (H Oversight) | GovExec article)

3/25 - The Censorship Industrial Complex (S Judiciary)

3/26 - The World Wild Web: Examining Harms Online (H Energy; see also, chair opening statement)

3/26 - Anti-American Airwaves: Accountability for the Heads of NPR and PBS (H Oversight; see also, majority and minority post-hearing statements)

3/27 - NTSB Preliminary Report: The DCA Midair Collision (S Commerce; chair and ranking member opening statements)

3/24 - Ranking Members Connolly and Meeks Sound the Alarm on Rubio’s “Triple-Hatted” Appointment and Suspicious, Potentially Unlawful, Disposal of Agency Documents (H Oversight; direct to letter)

3/24 - President Trump’s Pardons Stick Taxpayers With the Bill for January 6 Attack; Oversight Democrats Want to Know How Much (H Oversight; direct to letter)

3/27 - New Report: Trump Leaves Over 46 Million Students Without Protection from Discrimination (S HELP; direct to report)

3/28 - Budget Democrats Release Report Showing How Elon Musk’s Mass Firings Threaten Americans’ Social Security, Health Care, and More (H Budget; direct to report)

White House press releases and executive actions

Trump Trackers page

The news/media reading lists were not getting enough use to justify continuing, so I will no longer post those. I will again very selectively include media reports in the "miscellaneous" box below, as well as post related articles elsewhere when I think they provide important context.

3/24 - Broadband Stakeholders Identified Various Challenges Affecting Broadband Deployment (DOC)

3/24 - Complaint Referral Memorandum - United States Mint Congressional Awards Medal Loss (Treas)

3/27 - ICE Cannot Effectively Monitor the Location and Status of All Unaccompanied Alien Children After Federal Custody (DHS)

3/27 - The Census Bureau Should Address Challenges from the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey Ahead of the 2030 Census (DOC)

3/27 - Accessing Superfund Five-Year Reviews Listed in the EPA’s Annual Reports to Congress (EPA; see also, FYRs page)

3/28 - FHFA Oversight of Freddie Mac’s Issuance of Suspicious Activity Reports (FHFA)

3/28 - IIJA - Restoration Projects on Federal Land (USDA)

3/24 - Status of Education Department’s Title IX Regulations (CRS)

3/25 - Disaster Assistance: Improving the Federal Approach (GAO)

3/26 - Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, March 2025 (CBO)

3/26 - U.S. Egg Production and Retail Prices (CRS)

3/27 - Sharing Administrative Data for the 2030 Census (Census Fact Sheets)

3/28 - Memorandum for All United States Law School Deans and Admission Officers regarding Elimination of Race-Based Preferences in Law School Admissions and Employment Decisions (AG Select Publications)

3/28 - How will Trump's executive order affect the Smithsonian? (NPR; see also, SI secretary letter to staff via @benjaminweiss.bsky.social and ARL statement)

3/28 - Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions (NYT)

3/28 - The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations (ProPublica)

Several items were posted this week at NARA's Unauthorized Disposition of Federal Records page that I thought may be of interest, so am listing these separately.

3/24

1) DOD SECDEF, unfounded - A member of the public has alleged that records relating to the Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation are missing. News articles indicates that the records were transferred from the Foundation to the Department of Defense.

2) DOE, pending review - A former contract employee has alleged that 6 boxes of historical data relating to environmental cleanup were removed from their former contractor facility.

3) FEMA, pending review - An organization has alleged that records of a "Pride Chat" Discussion group maintained in Microsoft Teams were destroyed.

4) NPS, founded - The NARA Cartographic branch reported that 1 box of records containing maps, scheduled for transfer from NPS were not deliver with the remaining 3 boxes scheduled. NPS explained that the one box of maps were drafts and have now been recycled.

5) DOJ, unfounded - An organization alleged that the Department of Justice had undertaken an unauthorized disposition of federal records when it removed from its website a database containing information about the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

6) DOJ, pending review - An organization has alleged that the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) has been decommissioned and its contents destroyed.

7) CIA, founded - Permanent federal records of the Office of Protocol consisting of approximately 11 cubic feet of case files for honor and merit awards, and the documentation for specific award honorees, were accidently destroyed.

3/28

1) CBP, founded - OIG report, “CBP Targeted Americans with the 2018-2019 Migrant Caravan,”  alleges that the CBP has been using the messaging software WhatsApp and is deploying the encrypted messaging application Wickr across all components of the agency.

2) EOUSA, founded - Records of a US Attorney.

3) CFPB, pending review - Allegation that CFPB's Youtube and Facebook pages were taken down without any other copy of the contents being maintained.

4) CFPB, unfounded - American Oversight submitted a letter to NARA containing allegations made by a former CFPB official that records were at imminent risk of destruction.