Congressional Oversight

A timeline that chronicles major events in the Trump administration’s campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Just Security's Reinvention Blueprints series features expert proposals to rebuild U.S. government institutions so they serve the public and meet today's challenges.

DHS and ICE have failed to adhere to even the minimal transparency standards set by the Trump administration on AI use.

This collection brings together analysis of the legal and policy issues surrounding the 2026 U.S. midterm elections published on Just Security.

Hacking law assumes a human intended the break-in. AI agents are testing that assumption, and Congress may need to act.

To help curb government corruption, Congress should close the gaps in and expand the ban on contractor political spending.

If the Trump administration declines to disclose the terms of the Venezuela oil deal, Congress has tools available to compel it to do so.

Authorities for domestic use of the military are outdated and subject to abuse. This is a blueprint for a single modern statute, enforceable limits, and judicial review.

Collection of articles with key oversight questions for the U.S. Congress by leading experts, organized by topic.

Congress should pose the following questions to the administration about the assets it claims to have seized from Venezuela.

A House Foreign Affairs Committee report sheds light on the Trump administration's contentious interventions into Bosnia's politics.

The Privacy Act is ill-equipped to address contemporary privacy risks, much less to constrain an executive branch determined to use the data in its possession for new purposes.