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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 83 stories to Maryland since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Maryland.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Maryland
10 storiesAgriculture Department defunds 2 of 3 programs studying the foodborne parasite Cyclospora and moves the third to Iowa, where no scientist will follow, during a record outbreak, POLITICO reports.
30,000 cases, 922 hospitalized, 2 dead
Federal court abruptly cancels hearing for mistakenly deported Kilmar Ábrego Garcia over sending him to Liberia, though Costa Rica agreed to take him.
ICE called Costa Rica "prejudicial" to US
Justice Department sues Maryland the day its ban on masked officers, including federal agents, takes effect, citing the state attorney general's own warning.
Montgomery, Prince George's county laws also targeted
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warns DHS over a $102 million warehouse ICE bought near Hagerstown for detention as Howard County passes bipartisan emergency law blocking a separate private facility.
Warehouse not zoned for human habitation
A federal judge throws out the DOJ's lawsuit demanding Maryland's confidential voter database, the ninth court to reject the administration's bid for state voter rolls.
Sought voters' partial Social Security numbers
DC Water rushes emergency repairs on another corroded stretch of the sewer line that dumped 240 million gallons into the Potomac in January.
Six million gallons flow through daily
Trump's former national security adviser Bolton agrees to plead guilty to retaining national security information, six years after Trump called for his prosecution.
Diary entry shared with two relatives
25 states and DC sue Education Department over OBBBA graduate loan caps taking effect July 1, citing rural healthcare workforce strain.
Nursing excluded from professional degree list
ICE prepares to award construction contracts for Texas warehouse detention centers despite four state lawsuits and new Inspector General audit, weeks after Secretary Mullin called for review.
DHS paid 13% above market average
Federal appeals court unanimously backs lawmakers' right to inspect ICE detention centers without advance notice.
Includes Trump appointee Judge Neomi Rao
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 storiesGovernor Moore signs law banning Maryland police from participating in ICE's 287(g) program after finding the majority of those arrested by ICE in the state were never convicted of a crime.
9 counties previously had ICE agreements
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
Federal judge halts construction of Maryland ICE detention center for 1,500, ruling the state will likely succeed in its challenge that DHS skipped environmental review.
AG's lawsuit called roadmap for other states
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