CQ Roll Call Policy Briefs

Newly unsealed documents reveal that a private immigration detention firm placed detainees in solitary confinement for failing to volunteer for clean-up duty, contradicting what the company told Congress recently. Tanvi Misra reports.

Department of Homeland Security agents in Guatemala misused State Department funds to rent unmarked vans and round up hundreds of US-bound migrants and send them to Honduras. Camila DeChalus reports on this finding by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The Trump administration is leaving it up to states to locate medical grade deep freezers capable of storing Pfizer's vaccine, Emily Kopp reports. Medical supply chain experts describe them as "unicorns."

CQ Roll Call's Gopal Ratnam has more on what's keeping election security experts up at night.

We compare the similarities and differences in the Trump administration's plan to fight COVID versus Joe Biden's plan. CQ Roll Call reporter Andrew Siddons takes a look after Vice President Mike Pence called Biden's plan "plagiarism" during Wednesday's vice presidential debate.

In this CQ Roll Call Policy Brief, Gopal Ratnam who covers tech policy discusses key findings of the first-ever annual threat assessment put out by the Department of Homeland Security. Top threats include Russia trying to seed chaos in the U.S., cyber threats and domestic terrorism which has become more lethal in light of Black Lives Matter protests.

CQ Roll Call's health reporter Emily Kopp reports on the latest FDA guidance released today which would push back the timeline for an approved vaccine against the coronavirus. President Trump has publicly promised a vaccine by November 3, the day of presidential election, going against the health agency's guidance.

CQ Roll Call's health reporter Sandhya Raman talks about the financial strain Medicaid is under. Some states are uncertain about where money will come from while the number of Americans applying for Medicaid soars as the pandemic stretches into the autumn.

CQ Roll Call defense reporter John Donnelly examines the latest threat the military is worried about: Disinformation. US adversaries could seize on the President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis to spread disinformation and further roil a divided country weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

In this CQ Roll Call Policy Brief, transportation reporter Jessica Wehrman explains how Sen. Tammy Duckworth was able to get a bill passed that applies airport improvement funds to build lactation rooms.