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Unscored · 100 entries · last change August 18, 2026
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▲$2.8T
added to the national debt so far this term
18 months in; the JEC reported $2.77T year-over-year in April 2026
Net cost
Added since January 2025 — from $36.22T to roughly $39T. Borne by future taxpayers through debt service; sources put the range at $2.2T–$2.8T depending on cut-off.
Gross national debt · Treasury / Federal Reserve
▲53
more federal judges confirmed this term
On top of 234 in the first term
Transfer
10 appellate, 42 district, 1 Court of International Trade. Ahead of the 2018 confirmation pace but with a far thinner pipeline — 60 nominees submitted against 137 by this date in 2018.
Lifetime judgeships filled this term · Senate confirmation record
▲716K
total jobs added, Jan 2025 – Jun 2026
vs. 2,007,000 in the final 17 months prior
Transfer
Positive but roughly a third the pace of the preceding 17 months. Private sector +902K, offset by federal cuts.
Total nonfarm employment · BLS via FactCheck.org
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10-year deficit effect — OBBBA
$ trillions, 2025–2034
CBO, excl. interest3.4
CBO, incl. interest4.1
CBO, dynamic (thru 2035)4.7
CRFB, if made permanent5.5
10-year deficit effect — TCJA
$ trillions
JCT, dynamic1.07
JCT, conventional1.46
CBO, incl. interest1.9
Project 2025 implementation — competing trackers
% of that tracker’s own agenda list
CPR / GFI — 532 proposals, method published53
Crowdsourced tracker — 317 objectives, no method48
Employment effect — steel & aluminum tariffs
jobs
Steel production jobs added1000
Steel-consuming mfg. jobs lost-75000
August 13, 2026 · Foreign policy & defense · action
Memorandum orders study to replace EMALS with steam catapults on the next Ford-class carrier
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The 60-day EMALS/elevators plan (due mid-October 2026) and 90-day foreign-shipyard plan (due mid-November 2026) have not been delivered yet.
Layer 1 — Action
Signed August 13, 2026: "Rebuilding the United States Navy and America's Shipbuilding Industrial Base." Orders the Secretary of War, in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, to submit within 60 days a plan — including timelines and resourcing requirements — to replace the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Weapons Elevators with steam and hydraulic systems, specifically for the construction of CVN-81 (the future USS Doris Miller). The same memorandum separately authorizes a foreign-shipyard procurement path (the "Finland Model") for up to three ship classes — surface combatants, CONSOL tankers and roll-on/roll-off vessels — requiring any foreign supplier to build or take majority ownership of a US shipyard, train a US workforce, license techniques to US shipyards, and source a US supply chain; the Secretary of War must submit competitive acquisition plans within 90 days and has delegated waiver authority under 10 U.S.C. § 8679, subject to 30 days' congressional notice.
A presidential memorandum orders the Secretary of War to deliver, within 60 days, a plan to replace the electromagnetic catapults and weapons elevators on CVN-81 — a future carrier still under construction, not any carrier already in service — with steam and hydraulic systems.
Layer 2 —
Study ordered; does not itself change any carrier in service
The 60-day EMALS/elevators plan is due in mid-October 2026 and the 90-day foreign-shipyard acquisition plan in mid-November 2026; neither has been delivered as of this writing. The memorandum applies only to CVN-81, still under construction — no existing Ford-class carrier's launch or elevator systems are affected.
Verified as of August 2026
The memorandum's own text orders the study without including a public cost-benefit justification for switching from EMALS back to steam; no on-the-record administration rebuttal of the critics' cost/disruption concerns was found in available reporting.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
Estimated cost and schedule impact of abandoning EMALS for CVN-81.
Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute called the change "a major redesign" that would be "very disruptive," and said it could delay the carrier's planned 2034 service entry.
Bryan Clark, Hudson Institute
Academic and think-tank
General Atomics, EMALS's manufacturer, said the system is already "roughly 50 percent complete" under a nearly $1.2 billion 2023 contract, and warned of "significant cost, schedule, and integration risks" from switching systems.
General Atomics statement
Interested party — system manufacturer
Reaction to the decision from naval-policy experts and Congress.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a former Navy pilot, said: "Donald Trump knows nothing about this stuff. Not in any world would I suggest to the Navy to change the design of some system on a ship at this point," and estimated a redesign would "probably" cost billions of dollars, without citing a specific figure.
Sen. Mark Kelly
Named legislator — interested party
Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute called the change "highly unusual and disruptive for the Navy," without citing a specific cost estimate.