President and Administration
On Friday, 4/12, President Trump announced that his administration is "giving strong consideration" to releasing detained undocumented immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities — contradicting a previous statement…Today (4/15), President Trump’s tweets appeared to announce that the administration will move forward with plans…
The White House is weighing travel restrictions for nationals of countries with high rates of overstaying visas in the United States. Some of the countries with the highest rates of overstaying temporary visas are
Attorney General William Barr will release a redacted version of Mueller’s report on Russian election interference on…
Congress
The House and Senate are in recess for the next two weeks
On 4/10/19 the House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing on “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the US Department of Education”. Sec. DeVos was the only witness...
On 4/10/19 the Senate HELP Committee held a hearing on reauthorizing the Higher Education Act…
On 4/10/19 the Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee held a hearing on Department of Justice appropriation’s requests. Much of the hearing focused on questions to Attorney General Barr about the Mueller report, however there was some discussion of…
On 4/9/19 the Senate Homeland Security committee held a hearing on “Unprecedented Migration at the US Southern Border: Perspectives from the Frontline…
Other
On Sunday, 4/14, during their annual conference the American Association of Community Colleges provided more details about its apprenticeship program partnership with the Department of Labor…
Funding/Support Opportunities
There are new opportunities with DOL, DOE, and EPA…