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Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 5/24/25

Press Releases : May 24 - May 30

5/27 - CMS Increasing Oversight on States Illegally Using Federal Medicaid Funding for Health Care for Illegal Immigrants (CMS; direct to letter to states; see also, HealthCareDive article)

5/27 - The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe (State/Substack; see also, TPM article)

5/27 - Secretary Rollins Increases Funding to Reimburse States for Food Safety Inspections (USDA; see also, NPR article)

5/28 - CMS Launches Oversight Initiative on Hospitals Performing Experimental Sex Trait Modification Procedures (CMS; direct to letter to hospitals; see also, CNN article, with link to HHS secretary letter via X)

5/28 - Secretary Noem Releases Statement After ICE Arrests Illegal Alien who Threatened to Assassinate President Donald J. Trump (DHS; see also, AP article)

5/28 - EAC Commissioners Issue Policy in Support of Paper-Based and Auditable Voting Systems (EAC; direct to policy)

5/28 - U.S. Department of Education Fights Fraud in Student Aid to Protect the American Taxpayer (ED)

5/28 - Federal Reserve Board issues Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2024 report (Fed; direct to report page)

5/28 - Library of Congress Announces Awards for Federal Library Excellence (LOC)

5/28 - Announcement of a Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans (State; see also, Tech Policy Press article)

5/28 - New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China (State; see also, NBC News article)

5/29 - DHS Exposes Sanctuary Jurisdictions Defying Federal Immigration Law (DHS; direct to list via Internet Archive; see also, San Diego Union Tribune article; note - list was taken down 6/1, after 5/31 strong criticism from the National Sheriffs' Association)

5/29 - US Department of Labor pauses Job Corps center operations (DOL; see also, statements from S Approps chair | H Education ranking member)

5/29 - Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Slashes Red Tape Across FHWA, NHTSA, and FMCSA to Unburden Americans of Costly Regulations (DOT)

5/29 - Statement on Chair Powell's meeting with the President (Fed; see also, CNN article)

5/29 - USDA Invests $200M to Expand Timber Production, Strengthen Rural Economies, Secure American Industry (FS; direct to strategy)

5/29 - IRS releases fiscal year 2024 Data Book describing agency’s activities (IRS; direct to report)

5/29 - What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2025 (LOC)

5/29 - Next Steps on Building an America First State Department (State; direct to new org chart; see also, Mother Jones article | NextGov article)

5/29 - U.S. Postal Service Releases Dog Bite National Rankings (USPS)

5/30 - DHS Releases Statement on Major SCOTUS Victory for Trump Administration and the American People on Ending the CHNV Parole Program (DHS; see also, CBS News article, with link to source document)

5/30 - Secretary McMahon Visits Massapequa High School, Announces Finding in School Mascot Probe (ED; see also, AP article)

Bills Signed into Law : May 24 - May 30

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

Hearings: May 24 - May 30

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


None this week

Other links of possible interest

White House press releases and executive actions

Roll Call Factbase for Trump transcripts (no longer posted to WH website)

Regulations.gov

Trump Trackers

Inspectors General : May 24 - May 30

Miscellaneous : May 24 - May 30

5/27 - White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims (The Guardian)

5/27 - 120 court cases have been caught with AI hallucinations, according to new database (Mashable; direct to database)

5/27 - Supreme Court spurns Native American religious claim over copper mine on sacred land (NBC News; see also, Gorsuch dissent | Mark Joseph Stern thread on Bluesky)

5/27 - Marshals’ Data Shows Spike in Threats Against Federal Judges (NYT)

5/27 - GOP declares war on GAO (Politico)

5/28 - Federal court strikes down Trump’s tariffs on countries around the world (Politico, with link to source document; see also, 5/29 update - Federal court keeps Trump tariffs in place — for now via NPR, with link to source document)

5/29 - Supreme Court limits environmental review of major infrastructure projects (CNN, with link to source document)

5/29 - Letter from Attorney General Bondi to American Bar Association President William R. Bay (DOJ; see also, Time article)

5/29 - Trump’s Stunning Streak of Losses in Lower Courts (Democracy Docket)

5/29 - OPM ‘merit’ hiring plan includes bipartisan reforms, politicized new test (GovExec, with link to source document)

5/29 - ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Cites Nonexistent Studies (Undark; see also, 5/30 followup Science article,  with link to “corrected” MAHA report; original version available via IA)

5/29 - The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database (Wired; see also, CBP OFO statistics page, with CODIS DNA collection stats for 2021 – Q1 2025)

5/30 - Unauthorized Dispositions of Federal Records: 1, ACF, unfounded) The New York Review of Books published a December 5, 2024 review entitled "Torn Apart," which alleged that between 2017 and 2020 the Office of Refugee Resettlement head directed employees not to keep lists of the children separated from their parents and to “get rid of” lists that they did have. (NARA) 

5/30 - Under temporary leadership, OSC reverses progress on Hatch Act (CREW, with link to source document; see also, May 2024 opinion via IA)

5/30 - Trump nominates official with ties to antisemitic extremists to lead ethics agency [OSC] (NPR)

5/30 - Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans (NYT)

5/30 - White House Unveils New Details of Stark Budget Cuts (NYT, with link to budget appendix; see also, statements from S Approps ranking member | H Approps ranking member | my new Federal Budget libguide page)

Web Content Changes/Preservation

This list is illustrative, but certainly not exhaustive.

Note: special thanks to Jenny McBurney, Molly Blake, and Sanga Sung at the University of Minnesota, who are working to post items "from my own reviews" (including those in previous roundups, but excluding the media reports) in their Tracking Removed and Modified Government Information & Resources spreadsheet. A submission form is included on their page if you have other documents/resources that should be added.


From my own reviews:

Final May change/error report of GovSpeak linkcheck

1/31 (identified 5/31) – all budget & performance documents after 2021, except “Annual Financial Reports”, removed from DOJ Budget website (see 1/30 IA capture)

5/27 - USDA's Climate Change Resource Center website restored; “This website, and all linked websites under the control of the agency is under review and content may change.”

5/28 - SSA OIG report, Non-Government Organization Comments on Final Report: The Social Security Administration’s Administration of the Next Generation Telephony Project Contract, published; 5/29 the link was removed from the reports landing page (5/29 IA link) but pdfs remained available via direct access; 5/30 the link was restored to the landing page and the pdf was reformatted & capturable in IA; original pdfs were uploaded to IA

5/29 - Job Corps website (5/28 IA link) replaced with a stripped-down Beyond Job Corps site after DOL “paused” operations

5/29 - Patent Public Advisory Committee website (5/28 IA link) heavily revised and moved to new url; nearly all content, including 2007-2024 annual reports and 2006-2024 meeting transcripts, removed

5/29 - Trademark Public Advisory Committee website (5/28 IA link) heavily revised and moved to new url; nearly all content, including 2007-2024 annual reports and 2006-2024 meeting transcripts, removed

5/29 - GSA FOIA Library, FBI HQ site selection/post consultation documents section (5/26 IA link)

6/1 - List of sanctuary jurisdictions (6/1 IA link) removed from 5/29 DHS Exposes Sanctuary Jurisdictions Defying Federal Immigration Law press release after 5/31 strong criticism from the National Sheriffs' Association


From media/Bluesky reports: (All media reports are compiled on my Transition guide.)

5/27 - Went to look up a white paper in the NEH award database and it seems like white papers just... aren't accessible any longer. Clicking on a white paper link takes you back to the project page, over & over. Another reminder how the attack on funding orgs is ultimately about restricting information. (via @snblickhan.bsky.social; note – I confirmed his database findings on 5/28. Papers appear to have been restored since.)