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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 20 stories to Hawaii since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Hawaii.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Hawaii
10 stories21 states sue EPA over repealing power plant climate rules, which it paired with a step to bar future administrations from regulating that pollution.
Agency claims $300 billion industry savings
Above-average rents cause 16% to 34% of poverty in 10 states including California, New York and Maryland, a Pew analysis finds.
Austin, Minneapolis zoning cut rents 20%
Justice Department sues Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah and DC over in-state tuition for undocumented students, completing suits against every state with such laws, 25 total.
Arkansas agrees its law is preempted
A Washington Post investigation reports that confidential memos appear to show former DNI Tulsi Gabbard's childhood guru secretly guiding her conduct in Congress.
She echoed the talking points on TV
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
Education Department opens 18 Title IX investigations into schools with policies allowing transgender athletes, one day after Supreme Court heard arguments on state bans.
NYC, Hawaii schools targeted
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
Hawaii grand jury indicts Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke on bribery and conspiracy charges tied to a 2022 payoff probe, along with four others.
Ex-state official found most culpable
The Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii's law requiring permission before carrying firearms into stores and other businesses open to the public.
Second gun-rights ruling in a week
Hawaii's governor signs law redefining corporations to bar election spending, taking aim at Citizens United through novel state-level strategy.
Own AG opposed defending it in court
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 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
21 states sue USDA over guidance stripping SNAP benefits from refugees and asylum recipients, calling it unauthorized by Congress.
States given 1 day to comply, not 120
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
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