On Oct. 23, NAPO was invited to participate in a law enforcement roundtable discussion led by President Trump at the White House on the work of the Administration’s Homeland Security Task Force and its efforts to combat cartels and international drug and human trafficking networks. The Task Force is designed to be a single source of information sharing between Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement and international partners in our nation’s fight against transnational crime.

There is no end in sight to the partial federal government shutdown. Next week, will begin week five as the stalemate between Congress and the Administration continues over how to fund and reopen the federal government. Democrats are refusing to vote for the continuing resolution unless the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premiums are extended in the funding bill. Those premiums will expire at the end of the year, otherwise. Republicans are refusing to negotiate the ACA premiums extension until the federal government has reopened. Speaker Johnson adjourned the House, which last met on Sept. 19, stopping all legislative work in that chamber. Until the Senate passes the funding bill, he promised to keep the House out of session. Since the shutdown, the Senate has voted 12 times unsuccessfully on the continuing resolution. 

After the Senate voted Oct. 9 to include the NAPO-backed amendment – the Law Enforcement and Crime Victims Support Package – in the Fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), NAPO contacted the House to gain support for maintaining the provision in the final NDAA. NAPO also joined national law enforcement partners in a letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committees leaders urging them to keep the package in the final NDAA.

NAPO is continuing to work to prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ) from merging the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office into the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) by contacting and meeting with House Appropriations Committee members.

NAPO supports H.R. 5475, the No Tax on Overtime for All Workers Act, which will help ensure all hours that public safety officers work over 40 hours per week are counted as overtime.

NAPO sent a letter of thanks to Attorney General Pam Bondi for her leadership and continued efforts to combat the illicit vapor products. Led by the DOJ, with the Food and Drug Administration and other federal law enforcement partners, the coordinated enforcement operations are crucial to protecting our communities from unregulated and dangerous vapor products that pose serious health and safety risks.

Please click here for more details in the Oct. 24, 2025 Washington Report.