Filings that change public administration: proposed rules, enacted legislation, guidance letters, comment deadlines and injunctions halting operations.
The 2025 reconciliation law requires most states to condition Medicaid eligibility for adults on work or community engagement by Jan. 1, 2027, and CMS spent late 2025 issuing the exemption and implementation rules states are now racing to meet.
The rule requiring hotels and ticket sellers to show a total price with mandatory fees took effect May 12, 2025, and while courts did not block it, enforcement actions through 2025 and into 2026 are testing how far it reaches.
The Government Accountability Office said in a December 2025 decision that NTIA's June 2025 restructuring of the $42.45 billion broadband program was a rule under the Congressional Review Act that was never submitted to Congress, complicating the program's biggest overhaul since launch.
Changes from the 2025 reconciliation law took effect Nov. 1, 2025, raising the top age for SNAP's work requirement from 54 to 64 and narrowing exemptions, and states are still working through the backlog effects in 2026.
The IRS told state tax agencies in November 2025 that Direct File would not be available for the 2026 filing season and set no launch date for a future one, leaving Free File and state programs to fill the gap.
CMS said Nov. 25, 2025 that it reached agreements on negotiated prices for all 15 drugs in the second negotiation cycle, then turned around in January and selected the third round of drugs whose prices take effect in 2028.