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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
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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
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97 entries, 203 effect claims, 520 sourced estimates, 230 linked documents. Zero scores, grades, or rankings.
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Polling aggregate2
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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
2019-12-19 · Federal workforce & agencies · action
FUTURE Act — permanent HBCU and minority-serving institution funding
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Layer 1 — Action
H.R. 5363, the FUTURE Act (Public Law 116-91), passed the House by voice vote and the Senate by unanimous consent, and was signed December 19, 2019.
Permanently authorized $255 million in annual federal funding for historically Black colleges, tribal colleges and other minority-serving institutions, ending a cycle of temporary reauthorizations, alongside an IRS-Education Department data-sharing provision that simplified federal student aid verification.
Layer 2 —
Permanent; in force
The $255 million in Title III-F mandatory funding for HBCUs, tribal colleges and other minority-serving institutions, previously renewed on a temporary basis since 2008 and set to lapse at the end of FY2019, was made permanent starting FY2020. Technical amendments followed in the 2020 CARES Act. The funding remains in force through FY2026 and has not been proposed for repeal.
Verified as of August 2026
Passage was briefly delayed in September 2019 when the Senate education committee chairman objected to a standalone vote, seeking to attach the funding to a broader, more contentious Higher Education Act rewrite. The objection was to the vehicle, not the funding itself, which had bipartisan support throughout and passed by voice vote and unanimous consent once the standalone bill was allowed a vote.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
The Act made $255 million in annual Title III-F funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions permanent, ending a pattern of temporary reauthorizations that had run since 2008.
Prior authority for the $255 million Title III-F program had expired at the end of FY2019 after being renewed on a temporary basis since 2008; the FUTURE Act authorized the funding for "fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter."
Congressional Research Service, R46400
Nonpartisan legislative research service
The bill passed the House by voice vote and the Senate by unanimous consent before being signed into law, after a procedural delay over an unrelated, broader Higher Education Act package was resolved.
Congress.gov legislative record, H.R. 5363
Primary document
The funding is nominal; sequestration under the Budget Control Act reduces the amount actually disbursed each year.
Title III-F grants are nonexempt mandatory spending subject to sequestration under the Budget Control Act of 2011; the last pre-permanence year, FY2019, disbursed approximately $239 million against the $255 million authorization, about a 6.2% reduction.
Congressional Research Service, R46400
Nonpartisan legislative research service
UNCF, whose advocacy focused on securing permanence, called the law a rare standalone bill that focused solely on minority-serving institutions and passed on its own rather than as part of larger, must-pass legislation.
United Negro College Fund statement, December 19, 2019
Advocacy — HBCU and minority-serving-institution funding orientation
The law also authorized direct IRS-to-Education Department data sharing to verify income for federal student aid, loan repayment and disability-discharge determinations.
The Act directs the IRS, on the Education Department's written request, to disclose tax return information for recertifying income-driven loan repayments, total-and-permanent-disability discharges, and financial aid eligibility under the Higher Education Act.
Public Law 116-91 text, Congress.gov
Primary document
Sponsors cited a related Congressional Budget Office estimate that the data-sharing provisions would save the federal government about $2.8 billion over ten years, used in part to offset the cost of the permanent HBCU/MSI funding.
Congressional Budget Office estimate, cited by Senate sponsors