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The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 137 stories to New York since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from New York.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In New York
10 stories23 states sue to block DHS rule letting officials deny green cards over food stamps or Medicaid, four days before it takes effect.
Prior version lost in court
Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's "meritless" bid to vacate her sex-trafficking sentence, ruling the released Epstein files further incriminate her rather than exonerate.
Warned future appeals mean bad faith
Trump vows to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory after defeating Iran, telling voters he'll never apologize for $4 gas.
Announced at NY campaign rally
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in child care and safety net funding to Colorado, California, New York, Minnesota, and Illinois after officials couldn't provide evidence of fraud.
Based on one YouTuber's video
24,000 unaccompanied immigrant children lose their lawyers Friday as the government lets the legal-aid contract lapse while owing $65 million.
Children as young as 4 self-representing
FEMA will withhold 20% of states' antiterrorism grants unless they adopt hand-marked paper ballots, citizenship verification, and manual audits Trump's executive orders failed to impose.
Courts blocked SAVE database mandate last month
A federal judge blocks a Justice Department subpoena seeking transgender youth's names and medical records, finding it a likely effort to identify and target them.
No crime named in subpoena
Border czar Homan vows the largest ICE deployment New York City has ever seen after Hochul signs immigrant-protection laws.
https://go.govbrief.today/homan-nyc
New York's Assembly advances an amendment to allow partisan redistricting, a Democratic bid to answer Republican map redraws and net four House seats by 2028.
Six states already redrew maps
DOJ sues Connecticut over law banning ICE masks and requiring agent ID, after Ninth Circuit struck down similar California rule on Supremacy Clause.
Bans courthouse, school, church arrests
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 storiesFederal judge finds ICE likely violated the First Amendment when agents tracked a Rochester man to three locations over a scathing email calling its director a Nazi.
Warning notice served five months later
Rochester man sues DHS alleging agents violated the First Amendment by tracking him to a hotel over an angry email criticizing ICE's former director.
Wife never disclosed his hotel location
A federal judge permanently bars Trump from freezing Gateway tunnel funds he cut to punish Democrats during the shutdown, after New York and New Jersey sued.
Resolution put 1,000 back to work
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