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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 23 stories to Delaware since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Delaware.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Delaware
10 storiesNine states sue to block Trump administration deals paying wind developers to cancel offshore leases and invest in fossil fuel projects instead.
Used lawsuit fund though nobody sued
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
Weldon Amendment used as legal basis
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.'s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach "break it and see."
21 states sued, summary judgment granted
Trump administration orders review of all federal funding to 14 Democratic-led states and DC, directing agencies to report grants, loans, and contracts by Monday; memo claims effort is "data-gathering," not withholding.
Virginia added after initial memo
Federal judge orders Energy Department to restore clean energy grants after administration admitted in court that blue-state location was "a primary reason" for cancellations.
$8 billion in grants affected
Trump administration installs a statue of Declaration signer Caesar Rodney, who enslaved 200 people, in downtown D.C. after it was removed from Delaware during the 2020 racial justice protests.
Stored in warehouse since 2020
Seventeen states sue the Trump administration over a new survey requiring colleges to report years of student data broken down by race, gender and income.
Schools risk losing federal student aid
Texas AG Paxton sues Delaware nurse practitioner for prescribing abortion medication to Texans, second lawsuit testing state shield laws protecting out-of-state providers.
4,160 Texans received pills in June 2025
Justice Department sues Virginia for refusing to hand over voter registration data, the 15th state sued since September in DOJ's campaign to collect personal information from voter rolls.
Oregon, California lawsuits dismissed this month
Sixteen states sue Trump administration for withholding $2.1 billion in EV charging funds Congress allocated under Biden's infrastructure law.
Trump claimed $8 billion for 9 chargers
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
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesTwenty-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
Delaware Gov. Meyer signs 3 bills barring civil immigration arrests at state courthouses and blocking state and local police from helping ICE at schools, churches and hospitals.
Calls ICE operations "cruel and morally wrong"
Georgia Republican Party files ethics complaint against anonymous group spending $5 million on attack ads targeting Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones without disclosing donors.
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