12/15 - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15M to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants (DOJ; see also, 1/22/24 NYT article)
12/15 - Trump Administration Announces Another Historic Milestone Toward Implementing 100% Solution to the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis (EPA; direct to Minute 333)
12/15 - FDA Eliminates Major Barrier to Using Real-World Evidence in Drug and Device Application Reviews (FDA; see also, AJMC article)
12/15 - VA launches Veterans Health Administration reorganization (VA; see also, WaPo article)
12/16 - CDC Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for Hepatitis B Immunization for Infants Born to Women Who Test Negative for Hepatitis B Virus (CDC; direct to factsheet; see also, NBC News article)
12/16 - Arctic Report Card: Update for 2025 (NOAA; direct to full report pdf; see also, NPR article)
12/17 - CBP collects $1 billion since end of de minimis loophole (CBP; see also, CNN article)
12/17 - GPO Print Procurement Helps Local Businesses in 2025 (GPO)
12/17 - NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models (NOAA)
12/17 - Intent to restructure critical weather science infrastructure [re: NCAR] (NSF; see also, UCAR statement | USA Today article)
12/18 - HHS Acts to Bar Hospitals from Performing Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children (CMS; see also, STAT article with links to source documents | Important Context article)
12/18 - Promises Made, Promises Kept [end of year summary] (DOE)
12/18 - Instacart to Pay $60 Million in Consumer Refunds to Settle FTC Lawsuit Over Allegations it Engaged in Deceptive Tactics (FTC; see also, AP article)
12/18 - NASA Welcomes 15th Administrator Jared Isaacman (NASA; see also, NPR article)
12/18 - OSC Files Hatch Act Complaints Alleging Political Coercion, Misuse of Office in Chesapeake Sheriff’s Campaign (OSC; see also, WaPo article)
12/18 - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to Begin Investigation into Campus Antisemitism (USCCR)
12/19 - BTS Releases State-Level Transportation Public Finance Statistics data for the first time (BTS; direct to data page)
12/19 - Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, the Department of Homeland Security Has Historic Year [end of year summary] (DHS)
12/19 - U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Statement on the Office of Legal Counsel’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of Race-Based Higher Education Grant Programs (ED; direct to opinion)
12/19 - FCC Deletes Outdated Rules on Long-Forgotten Technologies (FCC)
(date?) - Defense Spending by State Fiscal Year 2024 posted to OLDCC website
12/15 - Body Camera Safety Cover posted to DHS Publications
12/19 - First 2025 meeting notice posted to Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) meetings page
12/19 - CES [Current Employment Statistics] Highlights have been discontinued posted to CES Notices
12/19 - One Year of Maha posted to HHS website top menu
12/19 - Hold and Review of Pending USCIS Adjustment of Status Applications Filed by Aliens Under the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program posted to USCIS Policy Memoranda (see also, CNN article with link to DV 2025 page)
12/19 - Epstein Library posted to DOJ website (see also, Wired article | NYT article | 12/20 Democracy Docket article with link to open-source Epstein Files Browser collection | JournalistStudio database of DOJ files)
12/14 - Oversight Committee Releases Bombshell Report Revealing D.C.’s Police Chief Deliberately Manipulated Crime Data (H Oversight majority; direct to report; see also, CNN article)
12/17 - Energy Department’s Watchdog Agrees to Schiff-Padilla-Lofgren Request for Independent Audit of Canceled Grants for 70+ California Projects (Sen. Schiff; direct to letter; see also, LA Times article)
12/19 - Heinrich Releases New Fact Sheet on Rising Electric Bills on Trump’s Watch (S Energy minority; direct to factsheet; see also, EIA data page)
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.
12/18 - S.1071, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 - sets forth FY2026 policies and authorities for DOD; DOE national security programs; Department of State; Coast Guard; and the Intelligence Community (see also, Politico article)
See full weekly list of Congressional hearings on congress.gov.
12/16 - From High-Risk to High Reward: Implementing GAO Recommendations for a More Accountable Government (S Homeland)
12/16 - Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC’s Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy (H Judiciary; see also, ranking member and subcom ranking member opening statements)
12/17 - FCC Oversight Hearing (S Commerce; see also, ranking member opening statement | pre-hearing minority release with report | The Verge article)
12/17 - The Impacts of Temporary Protected Status (H Judiciary; see also, subcom ranking member opening statement)
The Wayback Machine continues to experience delayed and/or inconsistent indexing.
White House press releases and executive actions
Roll Call Factbase for Trump transcripts (no longer posted to WH website)
Fall 2025 Semiannual Reports (SARs) are being released. As always, I'm tracking them on this guide.
12/15 - Audit of the United States Mint’s Schedules of Custodial Deep Storage Gold and Silver Reserves as of September 30, 2025 and 2024 (Treas)
12/16 - Audit of the EPA’s Post-Award Oversight of Grants Awarded Under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (EPA; see also, EPA administrator statement; note – unusual to have agency head response to OIG report)
12/17 - Evaluation of the Department’s Efforts To Improve Oversight of Its Funding to International Organizations (State)
12/18 - Management Advisory: Inadequate Housing of Soldiers Supporting the Southern Border Mission (DOD)
12/18 - Audit of DoD's Enhanced End-Use Monitoring in Israel (DOD)
12/18 - New NSF OIG website rolled out to replace site [IA captures] removed during shutdown; reports not yet published (NSF)
12/19 - Report of Investigation into Employment of Relatives at the CPSC (CPSC)
12/15 - Resources for Financial Market Data (CRS)
12/15 - Presidential Reorganization Authority: Potential Approaches for Congressional Consideration (CRS)
12/16 - Federal Data on Hate Crimes in the United States (CRS)
12/16 - U.S. Postal Service: Action Needed to Fix Unsustainable Business Model (GAO; see also, updated USPS primer)
12/16 - Service Academies: Clarifying Guidance Would Enhance Effectiveness of Honor and Conduct Systems (GAO; see also, supplemental material)
12/18 - Public Libraries: Many Buildings Are Reported to Be in Poor Condition, with Increasing Deferred Maintenance (GAO)
12/19 - Health Care Accessibility: Further Efforts Needed to Address Barriers for People with Disabilities (GAO)
Note: many paywalled articles are freely available via archive.ph
12/11 (missed last week) - Trump Administration Actions to Curb Data Collection Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) (KFF)
12/15 - NIH Pauses New Funding for Grants That Include ‘Health Equity,’ ‘Structural Racism,’ Pending Review (NOTUS)
12/16 - New Court Filings Give a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Trump’s East Wing Demolition (NOTUS, with link to source document)
12/16 - Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) (Vanity Fair; see also, Part 2)
12/16 - What 1,000 pages of documents tell us about DOGE (The Verge, with source documents)
12/16 - Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’ (WaPo, with link to source document)
12/17 - Trump expands travel bans and restrictions to 39 countries (Higher Ed Dive)
12/17 - Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election (NBC News)
12/17 - Deleting DEI [re: nonprofit tax filings] (ProPublica)
12/18 - US government admits Army and air traffic controller failures in deadly midair collision near DC (CNN, with source document)
12/18 - CDC funds controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns (Science, with link to source document; see also, H Science ranking member statement)
12/18 - Trump’s new $1,776 ‘warrior dividend’ to troops coming from Pentagon housing funds (Stars & Stripes)
12/18 - Stephen Miller’s hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into deadly boat strikes (WaPo)
12/19 - Trump Adds New Agency Watchdogs Despite Worries of Independence (Bloomberg)
12/19 - Trump’s bulldozer view of laws hits the Kennedy Center (CNN)
12/19 - HHS planning to overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots, source says (CNN)
12/19 - Judge Grants Judiciary's Motion to Dismiss a FOIA Lawsuit Against It, Pointing to the Fact That the Third Branch Is Exempt from FOIA (Fix the Court, with link to source document)
12/19 - Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US (Guardian, with link to source document)
12/19 - The Year That Changed Research (Inside Higher Ed)
This list is illustrative, but certainly not exhaustive.
Note: special thanks to Jenny McBurney, Molly Blake, and Sanga Sung at the University of Minnesota, who are working to post items "from my own reviews" (including those in previous roundups, but excluding the media reports) in their Tracking Removed and Modified Government Information & Resources spreadsheet. A submission form is included on their page if you have other documents/resources that should be added.
Note: since I've had requests for it, I'm making available a Google doc that compiles all the previous "from my own reviews" notes; it is updated every week. Many, but not all, of these are also included on the UMN spreadsheet above.
From my own reviews:
Preliminary December change/error report of GovSpeak linkcheck
12/15 - Unaccompanied Alien Children Data updated on ORR page. The 2025 data (10/18 IA capture) for “tender age” children and “released to sponsor” has been removed, so only includes FY26 data.
12/15 - Update posted to ERS Food Price Outlook: “October–December estimates will not be released. After the December 2025 CPI and PPI are published in January 2026, ERS will resume monthly Food Price Outlook updates on January 23, 2026.”
12/16 - Audit of the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. Restated Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2021 and Audit of the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Years 2023 and 2022 posted to DOJ OIG website
12/19 (identified) - Immigration Court Online Resource moved to new url; some changes to content (see 10/5 IA capture for comparison)
From media/Bluesky reports: (All previous media reports are compiled on my Transition guide.)
12/17 - FCC immediately edits website after pro-Trump chair claims it’s not an independent agency (Independent; see @SarahFisher post on X for before/after screenshots)
12/18 - EPA Removes Information about Agency and Environmental History (EDGI)
12/18 - Federal US website newly registered. https://councils.gov (Federal US domain bot/Bluesky)
12/20 - At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein (AP)
12/21 updates: DOJ Unredacts Epstein Document After Massie and Khanna’s Contempt Threats (NOTUS) | US justice department restores photo featuring Trump from Epstein files (Guardian)
