The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business.
DHS Reopens. On April 30, 2026, President Trump signed into law a funding bill that reopened the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the agency had been shut down for seventy-five days due to a funding lapse. The enacted legislation funds all of DHS’s subagencies, such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), through September 2026, but it does not provide funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Those agencies have been operating by using funds appropriated by 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and Republicans plan to further fund ICE and CBP by using the reconciliation process, which would allow them to pass such legislation without any Democratic votes in the U.S. Senate.
EEOC General Counsel Nominee Withdraws. This week, the White House withdrew the nomination of Carter Crow to serve as general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) after the management-side attorney pulled his name from consideration for the position. Crow was nominated in November 2025 but had yet to have a confirmation hearing in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). The road from nomination to Senate confirmation is...
Russian military command has been lying for the fifth month in a row about battlefield “successes,” claiming that Russian forces are advancing west of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. However, this...