Section 303 of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was designed to ensure that voter registration records contain basic identifying information. When an applicant has neither a driver’s license nor a Social Security number, however, the statute permits the state to assign a unique identifying number for voter registration purposes. That administrative fallback was meant to keep the registration process moving, not to substitute for substantive eligibility verification. States should clarify in law that applicants assigned a HAVA unique identifying number may not be placed on the active voter rolls unless and until they provide documentary proof of United States citizenship.
On February 2, 2026, President Trump, along with Chairman of the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) John Jovanovic, announced a new initiative to move U.S. critical mineral supply chains away from reliance on China. Project Vault establishes the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve intended to store critical minerals essential to America’s defense and industrial supply chains in facilities across the United States.
AFPI congratulates First Lady Melania Trump on her historic role presiding over today's U.N. Security Council meeting.
The Department of Education (ED) recently announced another inter-agency agreement to send responsibility for federal school safety programs to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These programs will undoubtedly be better managed by HHS than by ED, which has a tragic track record of leveraging its policy authority to make schools less safe. However, shifting management of federal programming alone will have a limited effect on conditions inside classrooms.
The purpose of this act is to promote safe and orderly classrooms where teacher authority is respected by students and school administrators, to ensure that parents have access to reliable insight into school safety, and to biannual review of school discipline policies. This act requires that the State Education Agency administer an annual survey to teachers to ascertain safety conditions within public schools. This act also requires Local Education Agencies to revisit their school discipline codes of conduct to increase teacher discretion in the school discipline system.