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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
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
2025-01-20 · Immigration & border · initiative
Interior immigration enforcement surge
53 of 97
Layer 1 — Action
Executive actions from January 20, 2025 directing expanded interior enforcement, revoking sensitive-location protections, and surging federal agents into targeted metropolitan areas.
A mass deportation campaign expanded interior enforcement into workplaces, schools and churches after "sensitive location" protections were revoked, accompanied by deaths during enforcement operations and sustained litigation.
Layer 2 —
Ongoing; record custody deaths; courts ordering changes
Enforcement surges continued through 2026. Southern border apprehensions fell 92%. ICE reported 33 deaths in custody in 2025, the highest annual total in more than two decades, with at least 24 more by August 4, 2026. A February 2026 court order requires conditions improvements in California facilities, and federal appeals courts have rejected the administration’s mandatory-detention reinterpretation. ICE published no enforcement data between April and July 11, 2026.
Verified as of August 2026
Enforcement statistics are contested because the categories are contested: "criminal" counts vary sharply depending on whether immigration violations themselves are counted as crimes. This archive reports the definitional dispute rather than picking a number.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
A majority of arrests in surged cities involved people without criminal convictions.
Widespread immigration arrests in surged metros were majority non-criminal-conviction, per enforcement data reporting.
NPR analysis of enforcement data
Journalistic verification
The administration states enforcement prioritizes public-safety threats and that all those arrested are removable under existing law.
DHS statements
Party to the action
Deaths occurred during enforcement operations.
At least four deadly shootings tied to one federal task force, with named victims and pending investigations.
NPR reporting
Journalistic verification
Named deaths including Renee Good and Alex Pretti drew sustained protest and municipal condemnation in early 2026.
Contemporaneous reporting
Journalistic verification
Southern border apprehensions fell sharply.
85,218 apprehensions over twelve months, a 92% decline against the final twelve months of the prior administration.
CBP data via FactCheck.org
Government statistical series
The administration identifies this as the central achievement of its immigration policy.
DHS and White House statements
Party to the action
No published study isolates how much of the decline is deterrence from these policies versus Mexican enforcement, transit-country conditions, or attempts simply not being made.
Absence of record — stated as absence
Primary document (negative finding)
Border Patrol recorded 237,538 southwest border encounters in fiscal year 2025 (October 2024–September 2025) — the lowest of any fiscal year since 1970. Monthly encounters fell below 10,000 starting February 2025, the first full month of the new term, down from 46,609–56,515 a month in the outgoing administration's final quarter (October–December 2024).
Pew Research Center analysis of CBP data
Nonpartisan research institute
Deaths in ICE custody reached a two-decade high.
ICE reported 33 deaths in custody during 2025, the highest annual total in more than twenty years; at least 24 more had died by August 4, 2026.
ICE reporting; National Immigration Project compilation
Government record and advocacy compilation — labeled
The El Paso County Medical Examiner ruled the January 3, 2026 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos a homicide by asphyxia from neck and torso compression. ICE’s own account described medical distress in segregation.
El Paso County Medical Examiner
Government forensic authority
46,436 of 65,765 people in ICE detention as of July 11, 2026 — about 71% — had no criminal conviction. About 86% were held in privately operated facilities.
ICE data compiled by Austin Kocher, Syracuse University
Academic / peer-reviewed
Whether the death rate per detainee rose, or deaths rose because the detained population rose, has not been published in a methodologically clean form.
Absence of record — stated as absence
Primary document (negative finding)
Courts have ordered changes to detention practice.
A February 2026 ruling requires ICE to ensure adequate health-care staffing, specialist access, and timely care and medication in California facilities.
Federal court order
Judicial record
Federal appeals courts rejected the administration’s reinterpretation of mandatory-detention law.
Green-card eligibility review was ordered for immigrants from 19 countries following the November 2025 shooting of National Guard members near the White House.
Administration announcement
Party to the action
Nineteen state attorneys general plus DC filed a brief opposing the enforcement approach in Minnesota litigation.