GovBrief Today header

What Happened Today – March 3, 2026

Workers install a Congestion Relief Zone sign in Manhattan the night before New York City's congestion pricing program launched in January 2025.

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber unveiled the final Congestion Relief Zone sign hours before launch, the program a federal judge ruled this week Trump had no authority to kill. (Metropolitan Transportation Authority, CC BY 2.0)

Kristi Noem spent the training budget on herself and her friends. She commissioned nearly a quarter billion dollars in ads routed to a company her spokesperson’s husband set up 11 days before the contract was awarded, then starred in them herself on horseback at Mount Rushmore. While she was doing that, she cut ICE training … Read more

Get the daily brief in your inbox

Subscribe Free