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Oregon
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 51 stories to Oregon since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Oregon.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Oregon
10 storiesForest Service will close nearly 2 dozen research facilities, dissolve all regional offices and move its headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City, claiming $16 million in savings.
Lost 16% of workforce in 2025
A federal judge orders the Pentagon to resume wind project reviews it froze for a year, stalling 125 projects across 25 states on radar claims.
Trump appointee requires monthly status reports
Wildfires force Oregon to close 70 miles of I-84 with no alternate route as three fires near Huntington push go-now evacuation orders.
Sections of U.S. 20 and 26 still closed
Family with active asylum case detained while taking 7-year-old to Portland emergency room; entered legally through CBP One, now held in Texas.
Active asylum case, 2028 court date
Justice Department sues Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington for refusing to issue undercover license plates to ICE agents.
Immigration is civil, not criminal
ProPublica documents 79 children harmed by federal tear gas and pepper spray during Trump immigration crackdown across multiple cities.
6 mo briefly stopped breathing in MN
Ninth Circuit lifts both lower-court restrictions on federal officers' use of tear gas at Portland ICE facility, dismissing apartment tenants' suit entirely.
Two Trump appointees, Biden judge dissents
Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer under IG investigation after texts show staff directed to "pay attention" to her husband and father.
Four forced out, three civil rights complaints
Appeals court allows federal tear gas near Portland ICE building again, two days before No Kings protest, as apartment residents stock gas masks.
Apartment residents stocking masks and food
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
Weldon Amendment used as legal basis
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 storiesThird federal judge rejects Justice Department voter data lawsuit, dismissing Oregon case after finding request lacked legal basis under Civil Rights Act.
DOJ has sued 23 states over voter data
Thousands march in Minneapolis as hundreds of anti-ICE protests sweep the country following federal agent shootings in Minnesota and Portland.
2000+ federal officers remain in Minnesota
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
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