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On June 11, 2024, New Jersey businessman Fred Daibes was convicted in a bank fraud case while also facing separate federal bribery charges involving Sen. Bob Menendez. The case highlighted how donor, business and political networks can overlap in federal corruption investigations.

President Biden formally transmits the US Citizenship Act of 2021 to Congress, the most comprehensive immigration reform bill since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. The bill would provide an 8-year path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the US, including DACA recipients who would get a 3-year path. It would increase refugee admissions, modernize the immigration system, address root causes of Central American migration, and make major reforms to the visa system. The bill never receives a Senate floor vote, blocked by Republican filibuster. Democrats' attempts to pass immigration provisions through budget reconciliation are ruled out of order by the Senate parliamentarian.

President Donald Trump vetoes three joint resolutions — S.J. Res. 36, 37, and 38 — on July 22, 2019, which had passed Congress with bipartisan support and would have blocked the emergency $8 billion Saudi Arabia and UAE arms sale. The Senate had passed the resolutions 53-45, including several Republican votes. Trump argues Congress is "micromanaging" foreign policy and that the resolutions "would weaken America's global competitiveness and damage the important relationship we have with our allies and partners." Congress lacks the two-thirds majority required to override the vetoes. The failed override exposes the limits of the AECA's disapproval mechanism: even bipartisan congressional majorities cannot stop a determined president who controls the emergency certification.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo invokes the Arms Export Control Act's emergency provision on May 24, 2019, certifying an emergency to approve roughly $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without the standard 30-day congressional review period. The package includes precision-guided munitions, aircraft support, and other weapons that members of Congress had blocked in committee over concerns about civilian casualties in Yemen. Pompeo certifies that Iran's "malign activity" across the region constitutes an emergency under Section 36(c). Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Rand Paul (R-KY) lead bipartisan opposition and introduce resolutions of disapproval, framing the bypass as an unconstitutional transfer of war-making authority from Congress to the executive.