New Report: "FEMA Must Provide Additional Technical Assistance to Support the Timely Rebuilding of Puerto Rico's Electrical Grid" oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…

New: FEMA's top lawyer resigns, telling colleagues the agency's work is often "misunderstood or mischaracterized" w/ Kellie Lunney news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

DHS violated federal appropriations law by withholding money for local governments and nonprofits that care for migrants, GAO says. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

ICYMI on Impoundment Control Act violations found by GAO

News: Pentagon contractors must notify the government if the price of spare parts for sustainment contracts jumps by more than 25%, under bipartisan legislation from Elizabeth Warren Chuck Grassley Joni Ernst Sen. Elissa Slotkin news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

DHS says ICE has made 18,000 tentative job offers in GOP-funded enforcement buildout so far -- exceeding even the admin's own estimate of increasing ICE by 10,000 personnel

From earlier: Key homeland security programs would be preserved under a stopgap funding measure from House Republicans: federal counter-drone powers and CISA 2015, the law that allows private sector to share cyber threat info w/ feds without legal risk news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Any potential legislative effort to sell off wide swaths of public lands “won’t happen” says Idaho Republican Mike Simpson, who helped derail the sell-off proposal fr Mike Lee that fell out of reconciliation. For BGov subscribers: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Update: DHS disputes GAO report that it has illegally impounded appropriated funds for migrant and homelessness grants. Agency says it restructured migrants funds to support detention & has opened up Emergency Food and Shelter $$ news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

House Homeland task force meeting now for roundtable and briefing on threats to next year’s FIFA World Cup and 2028 Summer Olympics

Senate Republicans surpassed the last major procedural hurdle on their way to confirming 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, setting new precedent in the chamber. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

A key House Democrat is calling for greater transparency from organizers of next year’s FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics after officials didn’t testify under oath or publicly answer questions about security planning news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Here is my latest investigation beyond the paywall about how the Trump administration’s proposed reorganization and funding cuts will impact opioid/substance use prevention. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

More permitting news: Bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus release recs for fixing permitting. For BGov subscribers: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

Scoop: Trump DOJ departs from protocols that prevented politicized civil rights hiring to restock a depleted division. At least two new hires were removed or suspended from prior prosecutor jobs while facing complaints. With Suzanne Monyak news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

In Skye Witley's Farm Brief newsletter, I wrote about ag and biosecurity specialists warning Homeland Security lawmakers about agricultural terrorism risks and urging more resources for testing at ports of entry & investigations For subscribers: bgov.com/news/T2SNGJGPW…

Story via me and Hadriana Lowenkron: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, speaking at National Press Club, says prosecution rate is at a staggering 93% for illegal border crossings

Possible to miss in the avalanche of immigration-related headlines today: the Trump administration says it's terminating Temporary Protected Status for Syria, a country that the State Department has given a Level 4 "do not travel" advisory. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

More border wall infrastructure coming to San Diego public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18372.pdf…