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Public approval37% approve · 57% disapproveNet approval of roughly −21 is the lowest of either term, below his post-January-6 floor of −19. Independent approval near 34%.Polling averages, early August 2026
Next scheduled testMidterm elections, November 2026Three months out. Independent approval below the level that preceded the 2018 wave; the entire House and a third of the Senate are on the ballot.Election calendar
Figures of record
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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
▲54
more federal judges confirmed this term
On top of 234 in the first term
Transfer
9 appellate, 45 district. 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
▲369K
total jobs added, Jan 2025 – Mar 2026
vs. 1,565,000 in the final 14 months prior
Transfer
Positive but roughly a quarter the pace of the preceding 14 months. Private sector +609K, offset by federal cuts.
Total nonfarm employment · BLS via FactCheck.org
What this archive is made of
97 entries, 203 effect claims, 520 sourced estimates, 230 linked documents. Zero scores, grades, or rankings.
Where every entry stands today
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Direct138
Contributory28
Contextual20
Disputed17
What the evidence is made of
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Primary document157
Government data79
Party to the action67
Academic / peer-reviewed52
Nonpartisan scorekeeper41
Advocacy — labeled31
Journalistic verification26
Named / interested parties24
Archive reasoning — not a source17
Cross-ideological convergence13
Mixed / other11
Polling aggregate2
The disagreement, charted
These are the numbers people argue with. Each bar is one published estimate at its own value, never averaged into a single figure, because the width of the gap is itself the finding.
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
2025-07-18 · Economy & trade · initiative
Federal cryptocurrency policy and the strategic reserve
85 of 97
Layer 1 — Action
Executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, March 6, 2025; GENIUS Act signed July 18, 2025 creating a federal stablecoin framework.
A reversal of prior enforcement posture, a strategic bitcoin reserve established by order, and the first federal stablecoin statute.
Layer 2 —
In force; conflict-of-interest questions unresolved
The reserve is capitalized with bitcoin already forfeited to the government rather than new purchases. The stablecoin statute passed with bipartisan support. Presidential-family crypto ventures launched during the same period generated roughly $1.4B in disclosed 2025 income and have drawn public characterization as an unprecedented conflict of interest from named government-ethics organizations; no adjudication has occurred.
Verified as of August 2026
That the President is exempt from the conflict-of-interest statute is a legal fact, not a defense of the arrangement or an indictment of it. The archive records the exemption and the overlap, and leaves the judgment there.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
Federal enforcement posture toward digital assets changed substantially.
The SEC dismissed or paused several major enforcement actions against exchanges in 2025.
SEC litigation records
Primary document
The GENIUS Act created reserve and disclosure requirements for payment stablecoins where none had existed federally.
Public Law text
Primary document
Consumer-protection advocates argue the framework is weaker than bank-equivalent regulation for instruments used like deposits.
Consumer advocacy analyses
Advocacy — consumer-protection orientation
Presidential-family financial interests overlap with the regulated sector.
Family-affiliated ventures issued digital assets during the period in which federal policy toward the sector was being set.
Corporate filings and disclosures
Primary document
No federal statute bars a president from holding interests in a regulated industry; the criminal conflict-of-interest statute exempts the President.
18 U.S.C. § 208 and ethics guidance
Primary document
World Liberty Financial applied for a national trust bank charter while the President's family held a financial stake in it.
CREW reporting on the bank charter application
Advocacy — government-ethics orientation
Trump's 2025 annual financial disclosure reported roughly $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency income for the year.
$1.4B total: $635M in $TRUMP meme-coin royalties, over $500M in World Liberty Financial token sales, about $65M from WLF equity sales, and $196M from Stablecoin Holdco LLC equity sales.
Trump, Donald J., 2025 Annual public financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e)
Primary document
Crypto income made up the largest single portion of Trump's roughly $2.2B in total disclosed 2025 income, exceeding revenue from his real-estate holdings combined.
CBS News, reporting on the OGE disclosure
Independent reporting
Independently confirms the same $1.4B total and the $TRUMP/WLF breakdown from the same disclosure.
Bloomberg, reporting on the OGE disclosure
Independent reporting
Government-ethics organizations have publicly characterized the arrangement as an unprecedented conflict of interest.
CREW characterizes the scale of monetizing the presidency in the second term, crypto ventures included, as unprecedented even by the standard of the first term.
Public Citizen's April 2026 report "Conflict Coin" states the Trump family has roughly $1B tied to World Liberty Financial and calls going into business with WLF's partners "flagrantly corrupt," quoting its research director by name.
Public Citizen, "Conflict Coin" (Apr. 28, 2026)
Advocacy — government-ethics orientation
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly: "Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest," calling the criticism "the same, tired, false narrative."