The House and Senate are returning from their two-week Easter recess period with a busy agenda ahead. While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown has now hit the two-month mark, a plan is emerging to use reconciliation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as well as the rest of DHS through a bipartisan funding bill. Senate Republicans will need to move quickly to put forward a FY2027 budget resolution as the first step of the reconciliation process. Another top legislative priority for Republican leadership will be reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which expires next week. Meanwhile, members of the House Agriculture Committe...
Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.