Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 1/3/26

1/5-  Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board Votes to Dissolve Organization in Act of Responsible Stewardship to Protect the Future of Public Media (CPB; see also, Public Notice article)

1/5 - Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Announces Maritime Administration Will Take Over and Streamline Deepwater Port Licensing (DOT; see also, USCG release | military.com article)

1/5 - CDC Acts on Presidential Memorandum to Update Childhood Immunization Schedule (HHS, with links to decision memo | assessment | factsheet; see also, Bluesky post about factsheet error | KFF Health News article)

Realized the Bluesky post requires sign in to view; post points to an error for factsheet item 3, which reads “Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available [emphasis mine] to anyone who wants them…”

1/5 - NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission (NASA; see also, HWO website | SpaceNews article)

1/5 - U.S. Postal Service Is Strengthening Requirements For Contracted Trucking Providers (USPS; see also, Freight Waves article)

1/6 - FTC Issues Biennial Report to Congress on the National Do Not Call Registry (FTC; direct to report)

1/6 - GSA Removes Minnesota Property From All Government Lodging Programs Following Denial of Rooms to Federal Immigration Agents (GSA; see also, Snopes article)

1/6 - HHS Freezes Child Care and Family Assistance Grants in Five States for Fraud Concerns (HHS; see also, CNN article | 1/8 NYT article on states’ lawsuit, with link to source document)

1/6 - Spring 2025 Provisional and Spring 2024 Final Data Released (NCES; direct to data page)

1/6 - Secretary Scott Bessent Announces Working Families Tax Cuts: Ushering in a New Golden Age (Treas; direct to website)

1/7 - Fact Sheet: President Trump is Restoring Prosperity, Safety and Security for the United States and Venezuela (DOE; see also, PBS article)

1/7 - Americans Have Accessed Government Information Through GPO More Than 15 Billion Times (GPO; direct to GovInfo)

1/7 - Kennedy, Rollins Unveil Historic Reset of U.S. Nutrition Policy, Put Real Food Back at Center of Health (HHS; direct to website – pdf downloads at bottom of page; see also, factsheet | NBC News article)

1/7 - Withdrawal from Wasteful, Ineffective, or Harmful International Organizations (State; direct to list; see also, UN Secretary-General statement | NPR article)

1/8 - The War Department Strengthens Measures to Protect DOW‑Funded Research (DOD; direct to memo)

1/8 - Federal Reserve Financial Services to take new actions to support penny circulation (FRB)

1/8 - IRS announces first day of 2026 filing season; online tools and resources help with tax filing (IRS)

1/8 - NHTSA Study Affirms Need for Female Crash Test Dummy Approved by the Trump Administration (NHTSA; direct to report)

1/9 - Secretary Chavez-DeRemer statement on December jobs report (DOL; see also, BLS report page | NBC News article | FT article on Trump early posting of jobs data)

1/9 - U.S. Department of Education Reaches Consensus on Historic New Accountability Framework and Concludes Higher Education Reform Rulemaking Sessions (ED; direct to info page – see AHEAD Committee section)

1/9 - What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: January 2026 (LOC)

1/9 - Reclamation releases draft environmental review for post-2026 Colorado River operations (USBR; direct to info page; see also, LA Times article)

1/5 - User notice: ATL19 v4 and ATL23 v2 ocean topography products require reprocessing posted to NSIDC Data Announcements

1/6 - Antifa folder added to FBI Vault Recently Added; currently has no content

1/7 - “Some QCEW [Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages] data files released on December 19, 2025, did not include revised data for the first quarter of 2025; corrections made on 01/07/2026” posted to BLS Errata page

1/9 - CHCO Council Latest Memos added Member Agencies and Annual Reports (2003-24) to side menu options

1/9 - New banner on OPM's FedScope site: "OPM has launched the Federal Workforce Data (FWD) website to replace FedScope. The new site, available at data.opm.gov, introduces predictable monthly data updates, interactive visualizations, downloadable datasets, and improved transparency around data quality. FedScope will be no longer be available as of January 28, 2026." 

1/9 - 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report page, published 9/29/25, updated to include Annual Report to Congress on the Use of Child Soldiers under Section 405(c) of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008; previously included only statement: “Please note this report was not final at the time of releasing the 2025 TIP Report.  This section will be updated as soon as possible.”

1/9 - Banner added to top of Bureau of Land Management website: “BLM NEPA Register Application outage for Jan 16-19. We are launching a new, modernized NEPA Register application in January. This means our BLM National NEPA Register site [eplanning] and all links to NEPA projects will not work during the planned Jan 16-19 outage. Please check back on Jan 20 to view the new application.”

1/5 - Ahead of 5th Anniversary of January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Judiciary Democrats Release New Reports Focused on the Careers of the Coup Plotters, the Rioters and the Democracy Defenders Since Jan. 6 and the Trump Pardons (H Judiciary minority, with links to 2 reports & factsheet)

1/7 - Sanders Releases New Report Delineating Trump’s War on Free Speech on College Campuses (S HELP minority; direct to report)

1/8 - Senate Democrats Launch Investigation into Trump Administration’s Dealings with Big Oil Surrounding U.S. Military Action in Venezuela (S Banking minority, with links to letters)

1/8 - Reps. Khanna and Massie Call for the Appointment of a Special Master to Compel the Department of Justice to Release the Full Epstein Files (Rep. Khanna; direct to letter)

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.

None this week

See full weekly list of Congressional hearings on congress.gov.

1/7 - Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part I (H Oversight; see also, chair opening statement)

1/7 - Full Stream Ahead: Competition and Consumer Choice in Digital Streaming (H Judiciary; testimonies & meeting materials available on minority website; see also, ranking member and subcom ranking member opening statements)

1/7 - Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable (S Judiciary)

New: The Wayback Machine delayed indexing appears to be resolved. 

White House press releases and executive actions

Roll Call Factbase for Trump transcripts (no longer posted to WH website)

Regulations.gov

Fall 2025 Semiannual Reports (SARs) are being released. As always, I'm tracking them on this guide.

1/6 - DOJ OIG Releases Report of Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Conditions of Confinement and Medical Treatment of Frederick Mervin Bardell and Related Representations to the Court (DOJ)

1/6 - Admission of States to the Union: A Historical Reference Guide (CRS)

1/7 - The Demographic Outlook: 2026 to 2056 (CBO)

1/7 - Food Safety: Further Action Needed to Implement Foodborne Illness Prevention Law and Assess Its Results (GAO)

1/8 - CBO's Current View of the Economy From 2026 to 2028 (CBO)

1/8 - Critical Mineral Resources: National Policy and Critical Minerals List (CRS)

Note: many paywalled articles are freely available via archive.ph

1/5 - Science Escapes Largest Cuts in Latest Budget Bills (Eos, with link to source document)

1/5 - ICE misses deadline to release report on in-custody death in Imperial County (KPBS; see also, Detainee Death Reporting website)

1/5 - Hundreds of judges reject Trump’s mandatory detention policy, with no end in sight (Politico)

1/5 - DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes (SFGATE)

1/5 - The Once Secret Memo That Trump Thinks Justifies His Venezuela Invasion (Slate, with link to source document)

1/6 - White House rewrites January 6 history and blames police for deadly attack on 5-year anniversary (CNN; direct to WH website)

1/6 - Less than 1% of Epstein files have been released, DOJ admits (Democracy Docket, with link to source document) 

1/6 - The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases (EFF; direct to dataset page)

1/6 - Insurrection Without End (First Branch Forecast)

1/6 - House Republicans’ Vote Margin Is Looking Pret-ty Thin Right Now (HuffPost)

1/6 - ‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho (WaPo)

1/7 - Environmental Health Perspectives joins the ACS Publications portfolio (ACS)

1/7 - If you want to brush up on federal statistical system changes, we've just added some updates to our tracking presentation. (APDU, via Bluesky; direct to slide deck)

1/7 - How the Government Publishing Office is using AI to enhance operations (NextGov)

1/7 - Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules (ProPublica)

1/7 - Trump Administration Draws Up New Legal Justification for Raid on Maduro (WSJ; note - OLC opinion not public yet)

1/8 - Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods (404 Media)

1/8 - Share Your Experience: Using AI to Access Federal Statistics (Federal Data Forum; see also, earlier post with one response)

1/8 - Education Department gives colleges three months to submit new admissions data (FedScoop, with link to source document)

1/8 - Judge rules that a fifth federal prosecutor appointed by Pam Bondi is serving unlawfully (NBC News, with link to source document)

1/9 - The Hole in Trump’s Rationale for Acquiring Greenland [re: closure of DOD’s Arctic and Global Resilience Policy Office] (The Atlantic)

1/9 - America’s Statistical System Is Breaking Down (Bloomberg)

1/9 - Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 (FOIA Files; direct to dataset)

1/9 - Kennedy Weakens U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (NYT; see also, USPSTF website)

1/9 - Consumer Bureau Leader Requests $145 Million for Agency He Wants to Eliminate [re: CFPB] (NYT, with link to source document)

1/10 - 220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency (NYT, with link to new OPM data dashboard)

1/10 - Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait (WaPo; direct to still-live portrait/label on SI website; see also,  Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian via The Guardian)

Note: no formal press release published on DHS or ICE website as of 1/11

1/7 - DHS Is Lying To You (404 Media, with links to 4 videos)

1/8 - Democrats threaten to withhold funding after ICE killing in Minneapolis (Guardian)

1/8 - Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt (MPR News)

1/8 - By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All (NYT Opinion)

1/8 - Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him (WaPo)

1/8 - ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony (Wired)

1/10 - The 7 Crucial Moments in the Minneapolis ICE Shooting (Asha Rangappa)

1/10 - Leaders alarmed about fairness of FBI inquiry into Minneapolis ICE shooting (Guardian)

1/10 - More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shooting in Minneapolis (Guardian; see also, How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance via Wired)

1/10 - A close examination of the shooting of Renee Good (Minnesota Star Tribune)

1/10 - Day after Minneapolis shooting, Noem ordered new restriction on congressional oversight (Politico, with source document)