National coverage in one place: federal policy, the courts, and the politics that reach Memphis directly, from congressional maps and federal tax policy to civil-rights litigation and the fights that show up in local budgets and ballots. Every federal move with a Memphis price tag is put on the record.
The Economic Policy Institute estimates roughly $1,961 per Tennessee taxpayer through the end of the current presidential term. DHS calls the spending vital.
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The measure would fund the government through December 11 and carries the grant-approval provision The 901 Report reported on August 4. The House must still reconcile its own version before any of it becomes law.
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State Representative Justin J. Pearson took the Democratic nomination with about 65 percent. State Senator Brent Taylor took the Republican nomination with just over 46 percent in a four-way race. The redrawn district is rated R+9. Both men leave state legislative seats in play.
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The Pentagon told Congress the National Guard mission in Washington will cost an additional $1.43 billion, about $51 million a month, from October 2026 through January 2029. The number exists because a senator asked for it in writing. Nobody has asked for Memphis.
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Governor Greg Abbott directed state regulators on August 3 to audit every data center in the grid queue before any more are approved. The disclosures he ordered are the same facts Memphis has been unable to establish about the Colossus campus. But the Texas order reaches only projects seeking a grid connection, and companies that generate their own power fall outside it.
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Bipartisan text released Monday, August 3, 2026 would avert a shutdown at the September 30 funding deadline, and would stop an Office of Management and Budget rule that routed federal grant approvals through senior political appointees.
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The ranking member of House Energy and Commerce wants a tour of the Colossus facilities, citing turbines operated without permits or pollution controls. Separately, DOJ moved to intervene in the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit, arguing the litigation threatens national security.
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Wisconsin regulators rejected having ratepayers share the cost of power plants built for data centers and cut the threshold from 500 megawatts to 100. Oregon approved a framework in May. Minnesota created a rate class by statute. Tennessee's law lets utilities help cover the costs, and MLGW's published policy for customers over 5,000 kilowatts is that everything is negotiated case by case.
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North Carolina's State Auditor found widespread oversight failures in the Town of Cary, where employee purchasing cards accounted for $24.2 million over two years. The former town manager resigned in December. Criminal investigations remain open, and no charges have been filed.
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USAspending.gov was created two decades ago so the public could follow federal grants. A Project On Government Oversight analysis of the site's own data found $712.6 billion in fiscal 2024 spending that cannot be followed below the state level, in categories covering schools, children's health care, veterans and drinking water.
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A nonpartisan CBO analysis broke out the cost of troop deployments city by city. Memphis ran $28 million a month for 1,500 Guard personnel, at $129 a day in lodging alone per person. Memphis and Washington were the only two deployments still standing when the report was written, and the Memphis operation has continued for six months since.
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Takeover advocates have repeatedly pointed to Houston's 2023 state intervention as the template for Memphis-Shelby County Schools. A University of Houston research center pulled the state's own enrollment and personnel data and published what the first two years actually produced.
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The Justice Department's Model Cities Initiative cites the federal surge in Memphis as proof of concept and will fund two to four cities. Applying requires the mayor's personal certification, signatures from the local governing body, and a written commitment to take direction from DOJ. There is no public record of where Memphis stands.
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The South Carolina Republican served in the Senate since 2003 and chaired the Budget Committee. He had returned from Ukraine days before his death.
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A Trump-backed push to end federal income taxes on overtime and tips is landing in a Memphis economy where a lot of workers rely on both. The real question: who pays the price if Washington trims the tax bill but shifts the hit somewhere else?
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