Thursday, August 13, 2026
Day 571
3 documented wins
Drone-import adjustment
The win
Section 232-style adjustments on unmanned aircraft and parts, so the U.S. is not flying Chinese airframes over American infrastructure.
For Americans
Cheap drones are also a surveillance and strike problem. Building them here is jobs plus a sky that is not a foreign sensor grid.
Fifteen months of zero releases
The win
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and CBP announced 15 straight months with zero releases at the border. Daily apprehensions were down 94% from the Biden years and at the lowest level in 30 years. July southwest apprehensions were less than agents used to see in six days in July 2024.
For Americans
A year and a quarter of zero catch-and-release is not a lucky month. It is a border that works. Regular people feel it as fewer got-aways, fewer fentanyl corridors, and cities that stopped being the waiting room.
Rebuilding the Navy and shipyards
The win
An order on Navy reconstitution and the shipbuilding industrial base — yards, workers, and a build rate that matches the Pacific problem.
For Americans
A sailor’s family in Norfolk or San Diego wants hulls that exist. Shipyard overtime in the Gulf is the domestic version of sea power.