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Michigan
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 56 stories to Michigan since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Michigan.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Michigan
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
DHS says Grand Rapids, Michigan, man who died in a crash fleeing an ICE traffic stop wasn't the person agents were after.
DHS claims over 100 mph
Michigan Gov. Whitmer orders state police to investigate the fatal crash of a father of three fleeing ICE agents in Grand Rapids.
Local investigators have limited federal access
The Trump administration cancels 53 of 67 federal teen pregnancy prevention grants worth $68 million, calling the evidence-based programs misaligned with its priorities.
A false abuse report removes former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's 4-year-old twins from his home for 24 hours before Michigan police rule it a hoax.
Officer called it politically motivated
Justice Department demands all 2024 ballots from Wayne County, Michigan, a Detroit-area Democratic stronghold Trump lost despite winning the state.
29 different states targeted
FBI declares March 12 truck attack on Detroit-area synagogue a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism, says attacker planned mass shooting with AR-style rifle.
Family killed in Israeli airstrike beforehand
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
Israel says brother of Michigan synagogue attacker who targeted more than 100 children was a Hezbollah commander killed in a strike 10 days earlier.
Attacker flagged in US databases
Man who rammed truck into Michigan synagogue with 140 children inside had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon the week before.
FBI investigating as act of terrorism
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
Federal judge blocks USDA order demanding states claw back November SNAP benefits already distributed to millions after agency sent contradictory memos within 24 hours.
17 states already distributed benefits
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