Gideon Resnick

There are some practical things that have been suggested, like reexamining the legislative calendar and boosting the importance of committees.

But Sprunt said that those potential changes could take a while to institute.

Let's turn now to immigration, another story that has defined the year.

As the White House has pushed for higher deportation rates, ICE agents have arrested more and more families.

Children are not meant to be held in custody for more than 20 days, thanks to a legal settlement dating back nearly 30 years.

Courts have blocked multiple attempts by the Trump administration in this term and his first to abolish those protections.

But new reporting from The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom focused on criminal justice reform, suggests that more than 1,300 children have been held for longer than they should have.

And that represents about a third of children they have found to have been taken into ICE custody.

On a flag is a senior data reporter who told us about a woman identified as NGC in court documents and her child.

They were transferred from a Chicago airport to an immigration processing center in Dilley, Texas.

NGC described Dilley as a living hell.

The Department of Homeland Security has previously told CNN that all detainees receive clean water and three meals a day.

And the company running the center told Flagg it complies with all policies, procedures, and detention standards.

A former Biden-era ICE official told Flagg that he believed the federal government is holding families for longer to increase the chance of deporting them straight from detention.

The thought behind reaching that limit is that it's challenging to mount responses to deportation cases with limited resources in custody, and that the living conditions could incentivize someone to want to leave.

The Marshall Project reports that in court filings this month, ICE acknowledged that extended custody of children was a challenge, but said that transportation delays, medical needs, and legal processing had slowed releases.

ICE did not respond to the publication when asked about the data.

As we approach the end of the year, it's still unclear exactly how President Trump's tariffs are going to play out, as the Supreme Court considers their legality.

As of now, the administration says it's collected around $200 billion in tariff revenue.

And there's one new fee that you might have noticed as you scrambled to get last-minute shopping done.