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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 14 stories to Nebraska since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Nebraska.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Nebraska
10 storiesTrump tells cheering Nebraska rally to let Iran "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, "a small price to pay" for keeping the country safe.
Newsom: "He is deranged and dangerous"
White House bars Politico from Air Force One for Trump's Nebraska trip, flying without a print pool reporter after it finds no replacement outlet.
One week after CNN removed from pool
White House budget office moves to ban federal grant money for voter registration drives, threatening grants Congress created in 2002 to help disabled Americans vote, ProPublica reports.
$10M a year across 57 groups
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
Major medical groups back gender-affirming care
HHS Secretary Kennedy overrules his own department's medical reviewer to keep a symptom-free cruise passenger locked in a federal quarantine facility against her doctors' recommendation.
She alleges retaliation for criticizing HHS
FTC forces ad firms Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to settle, barring brand-safety standards conservatives say hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.
Settlements include DEI in protected criteria
Internal ICE documents reveal plans for a privately run detention network spanning Minnesota and four neighboring states, with capacity to transfer 1,000 detainees up to 400 miles.
Contract between $20 and $50 million
Nebraska Gov. Pillen's hog company employed undocumented workers at least 20 farms while he lent ICE a state prison and troopers, a Flatwater Free Press and New York Times investigation finds.
Zero ICE audits in 15 years
Omaha superintendent bars police from carrying electric shock gloves in schools after officers used the devices ICE plans to buy on 2 students.
One deployment at special-needs program
Arkansas Governor Sanders moves forward Wednesday with a ban on buying candy and soda with SNAP benefits, days after a federal judge struck down identical restrictions in five states.
Same regulations the judge just vacated
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 storiesCNN, 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
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Stars and Stripes' editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Fired after USS Lincoln morale story
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