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September 27, 2025
Ryder Cup, Enabling Small Business Fed Contracting, New HSA Rules, New Grant Review Process, SCOTUS USAID Ruling, The Battles Of Lexington and Concord, And More
The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams of 24 players each from Europe and the US. Hosting duties alternate between venues in Europe and the US. The competition was started by English businessman Samuel Ryder in 1927 at the Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no prize money associated with this competition. The competition is jointly administered by the PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe (which is 60% PGA European Tour, 20% PGA of Great Britain, and 20% PGAs of Europe). The home team won the first 5 competitions. After WWII, the US won so often that by 1979 Great Britain & Ireland extended their team to include continental Europe.
On September 26, 2025, President Trump signed the Presidential Message on the 45th Ryder Cup announcing that we will join thousands of fans at the Bethpage Black Course, on Long Island, New York to root for the US Ryder Cup team this weekend. At the Ryder Cup competition, patriotism, teamwork, and camaraderie are what inspires the teams to greatness. The US Team Captain is Keegan Bradley. The President states he is looking forward to a wonderful weekend of golf. As we learned during President Trump's first visit to Scotland this year, granddaughter Kai is an avid golfer. In the video below, Kai and President Trump board Marine One for the quick trip to New York for the competition.
On May 5, 2025, President Trump signed Proclamation 10932 announcing Small Business Week (discussed in my May 6, 2025 ANP Article). Where President Trump reminded us his Administration is working to remove unfair trade practices as well as to open more opportunity for Small Businesses to participate in government contracting. After the OBBB was enacted into law, the White House published the article Small Business Sentiment Surges as the One Big Beautiful Bill Takes Effect (discussed in my July 24, 2025 ANP Article). On September 26, 2025 the White House published the statement The Office of Federal Procurement Policy and the Small Business Administration Reinforce Small Business Participation in Federal Contracting the Office of Management & Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy announced the release of streamlined regulatory coverage on small business contracting. These regulations are written in plain language and removing non-statutory rules when they are not essential to sound procurement. This reduced the burden on Small Businesses who seek to contract with the Federal government. For more information about the RFO, visit the Acquisition.gov Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) website https://www.acquisition.gov/far-overhaul.
On September 26, 2025, the White House published the research Expansion of HSA Eligibility Under OBBB Act to Improve Marketplace Coverage, Affordability, and Access explaining changes the OBBB has wrought within the health system, reminding us that on January 1, 2026, reclassifies Bronze and Catastrophic ACA Marketplace plans as qualifying High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) which had previously been considered Health Savings Account (HSA) eligible; however, Catastrophic health plans were not. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on September 3, 2025 that they have expanded eligibility for HSA to those over 30. It is anticipated that this will increase enrollment by 3 million individuals and increase the number of Americans eligible to over 10 million individuals. You can download the research report in pdf format by clicking here.
On September 26, 2025, the White House published the article Democrats’ Unhinged Crusade Against ICE Fuels Bloodshed decries the Democrats' vilifying ICED as "fascists, Gestapo, and slave patrols" as well as inciting an over 1,000% surge in attacks on ICE agents. The article lists links Democrat "leaders" to their inflammatory words:
These so-called "leaders" in the Democratic party need to be held accountable for the actions their incendiary words compel from their followers. They should not be given 'special' treatment allowing them to spew this nonsense outside of Congress (they ARE protected in what they say in Congress). Incitement to violence should never be expected from our political "leaders". Especially those who have the wherewithal to make changes to laws using the power of the Congress. If they don't have the support of their fellow electees in Congress, I'd say they don't have the support of their constituents either. [RELATED: Vice President Vance Skewers Bud Light Troll: Conservatives Boycott, The Left Excuses Violence]
17 SCOTUS stays or motions to vacate of lower court orders
1 SCOTUS affirmation of lower court order
12 suits where judges ruled for the federal government
28 suits where judges ruled against the federal government
There have been no updates to the LAWFARE Tracker since September 24, 2025.
However, SCOTUS did make a preliminary ruling on the lawsuit Department of State, et al. v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, et al., docket # 25A269 filed at SCOTUS on September 3, 2025, regarding the application for stay. The 6:3 opinion (of course the 3 dissenting were, to no one's surprise, Kagan, Sotomayor, & Jackson). The majority wrote:
On September 3, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a preliminary injunction directing the Executive to obligate roughly $10.5 billion of appropriated aid funding set to expire on September 30. Of that $10.5 billion, $4 billion was proposed to be rescinded in a “special message” transmitted pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act. See 2 U. S. C. §681 et seq. After the District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied stays of that order, the Government filed this application to stay the District Court’s injunction. The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. The Government, at this early stage, has made a sufficient showing that the Impoundment Control Act precludes respondents’ suit, brought pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, to enforce the appropriations at issue here. The Government has also made a sufficient showing that mandamus relief is unavailable to respondents. And, on the record before the Court, the asserted harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents. This order should not be read as a final determination on the merits. The relief granted by the Court today reflects our preliminary view, consistent with the standards for interim relief.
“The Shot Heard Round the World”: The Battles of Lexington and Concord
After the Boston Team Party of 1773, British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts and the Massachusetts Government Act in early 1774. In response, the Suffolk Resolves were adopted and local militias were called for training. On September 17, 1774, the First Continental Congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves. By February 1775, the British government declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion.
On April 18, 1775, about 700 British Regulars were ordered to capture and destroy colonial military supplies reportedly stored at Concord in the hopes of preventing fighting. Patriot leaders knew weeks ahead of time enabling them to move the supplies. The British, who had occupied Boston in 1768, marched up to Concord to confiscate the supplies. The British first assaulted Lexington then moved on to Concord.
At sunrise on April 19, 1775, the first major military actions between the British Army and Colonial Patriot Militias began at Lexington. During that battle, 8 militiamen were killed and 10 were wounded but only 1 British soldier was wounded. The British Army then trekked to Concord. The day-long battles were engaged in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present day Arlington), and Cambridge. When the British realized there were no supplies where they expected them to be, they began a return march to Boston. Along the route, militiamen from neighboring towns exchanged gunfire with the British troops, who reached Boston while under heavy fire and incurring grave losses. The militias blocked land access to Charlestown and Boston beginning the siege of Boston.
The casualties of this day totaled 393 representing 93 Colonials & 300 British. Of the 93 Colonials, 49 were killed, 39 wounded, 5 were missing & captured. Of the 300 British, 73 were killed, 174 wounded, and 53 missing & captured. Almost 20,000 Colonials arrived from throughout New England during this time ultimately forming the Continental Army. The National Park Service provides an interactive map and a detailed timeline if you are interested in more information.
Fact #1: Minutemen vs. Militia - it was the Militia that met the British Regulars on the morning of April 19, 1775
Fact #2: Lexington was not the first place colonial militia and British Regulars faced off.
Fact #3: More than Paul Revere, dozens of colonial riders rode out on April 18-19, 1775
Fact #4: British General Thomas Gage’s goal was the military supplies in Concord, not John Hancock or Samuel Adams in Lexington.
Fact #5: The Lexington militia did not intend to fight the British Regulars.
Fact #6: No one knows who fired the first shot at Lexington
Fact #7: The bloodiest stretch of “Battle Road” was in Menotomy.
Fact #8: Despite modern-day pop culture references, there is no evidence to suggest that General Gage’s wife, Margaret Kemble Gage, was a spy for the Sons of Liberty.
Fact #9: The Birthplace of the United States armed forces is considered by many to be at David Brown’s Farm near the North Bridge.
Fact #10: The fighting on April 19, 1775, is one of the best documented battles of the American Revolution
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