DOGE and the Debate over Nonprofits
On June 4, 2025, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) held a hearing titled “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild.” The hearing reflected a rising political turmoil: the role of nonprofit organizations in public life and the use of federal funds to support their work.
Resurrecting the U.S. Department of Education?
The U.S. District Court in Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction effectively halting the Trump Administration’s efforts to shutter the U.S. Department of Education (“ED”). In a sweeping eighty-eight-page opinion, Judge Myong J. Joun explained that the Administration illegally fired over 1,300 career employees who dedicate their professional lives to serving the nation’s students in every zip code.
SCOTUS Rules 4-4 on Major Charter School Case
This deadlock means that Oklahoma’s Supreme Court decision remains good law, though it is only binding in the state and has no nationwide effect. Had the Court overturned the state court’s decision, it would have upended charter school funding as we know it.