The GAO High-Risk List, Mid-Cycle: 38 Areas and One New Entrant
February 2025's update added federal disaster assistance to the government's official list of broken processes — and the next chance to leave the list comes in 2027.
Valentina Sokolov
A running record of policy as it moves: introductions, committee stages, consultation windows, final rules and statutory guidance. Entries carry dates, responsible bodies and closing deadlines. Built for government affairs staff, association analysts and anyone who must respond to a consultation before it shuts.
A dated feed of policy in motion: bills introduced, consultations opened, rules finalized and guidance published, each with its closing deadline.
February 2025's update added federal disaster assistance to the government's official list of broken processes — and the next chance to leave the list comes in 2027.
Valentina Sokolov
The Supreme Court ended judicial deference to agency statutory readings in 2024 — and the drafting response, longer rules with more explicit statutory anchors, is visible in the Federal Register.
Valentina Sokolov
Congress overturned twenty-two agency rules in 2025 — the most ever in a year — and the mechanism's 50-vote repeal, 60-vote restore structure is now the operative fact.
Valentina Sokolov
An executive order binds the executive branch it runs — it cannot appropriate money, amend statutes, or outlive judicial review, and the record proves all three limits weekly.
Valentina Sokolov
The partial request released the week of March 30 proposes roughly $73 billion in non-defense reductions — a number that now faces the appropriations committees' own arithmetic.
Valentina Sokolov