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CISA nominee Sean Plankey withdraws after 13 months awaiting confirmation, leaving cyberdefense agency without a Senate-confirmed director amid Iran war and election-year threats.
Agency has lost a third of workforce
Source: NextGov
April 22, 2026
DHS says it will stop paying 100,000 employees in May as shutdown enters third month and Senate advances reconciliation bill to fund ICE without Democrats.
Furloughed workers were recalled under Trump memo
Source: Government Executive
April 22, 2026
Iowa federal judge orders third bond hearing for truck driver held 10 weeks, says government wants to "whipsaw" him with retroactive mandatory detention rule.
Stopped at weigh station while asylum pending
Source: The Iowa Capital Dispatch
April 22, 2026
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) has missed every House vote since March 5 and not responded to colleagues' calls, with his office citing only a "personal health matter."
Social account reposting old photos from office archive
Source: NJ Spotlight News
April 22, 2026
Virginia circuit court judge blocks results of redistricting referendum a day after voters narrowly approved map that would favor Democrats in 2026 midterms.
VA AG Jones appealing immediately
Source: NOTUS
April 22, 2026
Federal judge dismisses FBI Director Patel's defamation lawsuit against former FBI counterintelligence official, calling the nightclub comments "rhetorical hyperbole."
Dismissed one day before Atlantic suit filed
Source: UPI
April 22, 2026
