Marcus Hale

Treasury's new diesel license runs 180 days with no tonnage, price or loading cutoff. How much fuel actually moves is decided by Russia's own export ban and by refineries Ukraine keeps hitting.

H-1B status is untouched, but the green-card line now stalls at different points. The extension clock still counts from when a PERM was filed, while certified cases face a 180-day deadline to reach USCIS.

DHS's own math charges even STEM extensions the full $70,000 in the rule's first year, and every dollar of the estimated $12.4 billion a year would go to the general Treasury, not ICE.

Congress moved the fiscal year to October 1 in 1974 to buy itself three more months. Fiscal 2027 began this month on a stopgap anyway.

A government shutdown doesn't switch off the federal government. It switches off only the parts Congress funds one year at a time.

The House and Senate funded the government a month early this year, but the fix was the same one Congress has used 141 times since 1998: a continuing resolution, not a budget.

Virginia, New Jersey, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi elect governors on a calendar built, in part, to keep the electorate smaller. It still does.

No seniority, no vote, just a numbered chip pulled from a wooden box. That's how the House has decided which freshmen get a good office since 1908, and this November's class draws again.

The Federal Reserve Act lets a president remove a governor only "for cause." That standard, paired with 14-year staggered terms, is why Trump's second attempt to oust Lisa Cook faces the same wall as his first.

A federal regulator capped USPS to one mail price increase a year through 2030, reversing a five-year run of twice-yearly hikes that still left the agency $9 billion short.

The Department of Homeland Security has scrapped the rule that limited how immigration officers weigh public-benefit use in green-card decisions — and wider discretion returns Sept. 18.

When trade wars escalate, the retaliation list is never random — it's aimed at specific industries and the politicians who represent them.

A federal surveillance law expired in June 2026 and the surveillance kept running anyway. Here's how sunset clauses actually end, or don't end, a law.

The House has impeached only 15 federal judges since 1803, all for crimes like bribery or perjury. A 2025 wave of impeachment threats over rulings broke that pattern.

Congress made your mailbox federal territory in 1934, and the law criminalizing unstamped flyers is now central to the fight over privatizing the Postal Service. Here's what 18 U.S.C. 1725 actually says.

Mid-decade redistricting used to happen about twice a generation. In the last year alone, five states did it. Here's the mechanism behind the current fight for the House.

A stopgap isn't a budget. Here's the mechanical difference between the funding patch the Senate just passed and the appropriations fight still unresolved behind it.

A 155-year-old law, not politics, is what actually forces agencies to furlough workers the moment government funding lapses.

A senator gavels the Senate in, says nothing, gavels out — and that ritual is enough to strip a president of the power to fill vacancies without Senate consent.

The House and Senate each passed their own plan to avoid a fall shutdown -- but the bills set different deadlines and disagree on Border Patrol funding.