June 6, 2026 - Gov Brief Today

What Happened Today – June 5, 2026

June 6, 2026 by George Bounacos

Aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department, with Washington, D.C., visible across the river.

The Pentagon, home of a Defense Department that a House committee voted along party lines to rename the Department of War, codifying Trump's September order. (Defense Department photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright)

A DOGE official pushed Social Security to mark 2.7 million living people as dead. These were immigrants the administration wanted gone. Once Social Security marks you dead, getting a job or opening a bank account makes you look like an identity thief using a dead person’s number. The goal was to make life impossible until … Read more