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Vermont
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 19 stories to Vermont since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Vermont.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Vermont
10 storiesNine states sue to block Trump administration deals paying wind developers to cancel offshore leases and invest in fossil fuel projects instead.
Used lawsuit fund though nobody sued
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
Judge rules Harvard scientist's visa was unlawfully canceled after she spent a year in immigration detention over biological samples from her cancer research.
Stopped at Boston Logan carrying lab materials
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
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
Trump administration orders review of all federal funding to 14 Democratic-led states and DC, directing agencies to report grants, loans, and contracts by Monday; memo claims effort is "data-gathering," not withholding.
Virginia added after initial memo
Education Department opens 18 Title IX investigations into schools with policies allowing transgender athletes, one day after Supreme Court heard arguments on state bans.
NYC, Hawaii schools targeted
Federal judge orders Energy Department to restore clean energy grants after administration admitted in court that blue-state location was "a primary reason" for cancellations.
$8 billion in grants affected
Supreme Court rejects Meta appeal, lets Vermont sue Instagram for designing platform to addict teens, potentially opening floodgates for hundreds of similar cases.
Test case for state AG suits
Seventeen states sue the Trump administration over a new survey requiring colleges to report years of student data broken down by race, gender and income.
Schools risk losing federal student aid
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 storiesSeven states sue to block the administration's $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
Move follows repeated administration court losses
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
Trump-appointed federal judge orders administration to restore $233 million in disaster funding after 12 attorneys general sued over cuts tied to immigration enforcement.
9 states had funding slashed
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