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Arizona
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 69 stories to Arizona since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Arizona.
26days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Arizona
10 storiesMasked, armed CBP agents escort border wall contractors onto Tohono O'odham Nation land to begin drilling, 11 days after a judge refused to halt construction.
Blocked tribal police from issuing citations
Judge rules a 1-year-old in government custody with no lawyer must file an asylum application or face deportation, after HHS replaced the contract funding children's attorneys.
Replacement contractor's attorney sat silent
Trump calls Arizona's Maricopa County "very, very dishonest" after vendor mails 3,126 ballots six days early, an error its Republican recorder says changes nothing for voters.
2.5 million registered voters in county
Arizona AG Mayes sues the Trump administration over plans to convert a Surprise warehouse across the street from a hazardous chemical storage site into an ICE detention center.
Maryland warehouse case blocked last week
The Trump administration cancels 53 of 67 federal teen pregnancy prevention grants worth $68 million, calling the evidence-based programs misaligned with its priorities.
Defense Secretary Hegseth calls for second investigation into Senator Kelly over depleted munitions warning, days after appeals court signaled rejection of first retaliation effort.
45% of precision strike missiles gone
FOIA records show 180+ polluters got Clean Air Act exemptions through email requests with no EPA scientific review.
70 had recent EPA enforcement actions
Trump administration sues Illinois, Connecticut and Arizona to block state gambling regulators from overseeing prediction markets where traders have profited from the president's military strikes.
Donald Trump Jr. advises both leading platforms
FBI subpoenas Arizona Senate records from debunked 2020 election audit, the second swing state targeted after January's Georgia raid.
Audit confirmed Biden's 2020 win
DHS election integrity official with ties to the 2020 election denial movement tells state election chiefs that ICE agents won't appear at polling places, as secretaries of state say they're unconvinced.
First federal election contact in months
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesArizona organizers train 250 election observers to respond if National Guard troops or ICE agents show up at polling places during the midterms.
Memorial for ICE shooting victims opened training
Surprise congressional visit finds Arizona ICE holding facility packed to five times its 157-person capacity, with detainees sleeping on concrete floors for days.
At peak, 777 held in same day
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
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