Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford named Peraton as prime integrator for the new air traffic control system on Dec. 4, 2025, putting a single contractor in charge of a rebuild funded by $12.5 billion from the 2025 reconciliation law.
TSA has enforced REAL ID rules since May 7, 2025, reporting checkpoint compliance above 90 percent, and since Feb. 1, 2026 travelers without a compliant ID can pay a $45 fee for enhanced identity verification rather than being turned away.
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.