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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.
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Disputed17
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Government data79
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Academic / peer-reviewed52
Nonpartisan scorekeeper41
Advocacy — labeled31
Journalistic verification26
Named / interested parties24
Archive reasoning — not a source17
Cross-ideological convergence13
Mixed / other11
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
2021-01-06 · Rule of law & institutions · action
January 6 and the certification of the 2020 election
44 of 97
Layer 1 — Action
Rally address on the Ellipse, January 6, 2021; Capitol breached at 2:12 p.m.; certification completed 3:41 a.m. January 7. Impeached by the House 232-197 on January 13; acquitted by the Senate 57-43 on February 13, 2021.
The Capitol was breached during the electoral vote count; certification resumed and concluded early on January 7. The House impeached; the Senate acquitted.
Layer 2 —
Federal prosecution dismissed 2024; participants pardoned January 2025
The federal case brought by the special counsel was dismissed without a verdict in November 2024 following the election, under longstanding DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president. Roughly 1,500 people convicted or charged in connection with the events were pardoned or had sentences commuted on January 20, 2025.
Verified as of August 2026
The legal question of criminal culpability was never resolved by a verdict — the case was dismissed on procedural grounds, not decided on the merits. The archive records that as unresolved rather than as either exoneration or guilt. The submission of false elector certificates and the pressure campaign on Pence are documented events — Eastman was disbarred specifically for orchestrating them, a finding upheld on appeal — but whether Trump himself bears criminal responsibility for either was never tested at trial, for the same reason: no verdict was reached.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
The certification of the 2020 election was delayed but completed.
Congress reconvened and certified the results the same night.
Congressional Record, January 6-7, 2021
Primary document
The joint session was suspended for roughly six hours; certification concluded at 3:41 a.m. on January 7.
Congressional Record timestamps
Primary document
No court found evidence of outcome-determinative fraud in the 2020 election.
More than 60 post-election lawsuits were dismissed or decided against the claims, including by Trump-appointed judges.
Federal and state court records
Judicial record
The Attorney General stated in December 2020 that DOJ had found no fraud on a scale that would change the outcome.
Statement of AG William Barr
Executive branch, appointed by the subject
A hand recount and risk-limiting audit in Georgia confirmed the certified result.
Georgia Secretary of State
State election official, Republican
The House impeached and the Senate acquitted; courts later barred Section 3 disqualification.
The Senate acquitted; 57 of 100 senators voted to convict, short of the 67 required.
Senate roll call vote 59, 117th Congress
Primary document
Trump v. Anderson (2024) held unanimously that states may not enforce Section 3 disqualification for federal office.
US Supreme Court opinion
Primary document
Certificates from fake electors were submitted in seven contested states.
The House Select Committee documented that slates of electors falsely certifying Trump as the winner were submitted from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, Final Report (H. Rpt. 117-663)
Primary document
John Eastman, the plan's lead legal architect, was disbarred in California; the State Bar Court found him culpable on 10 of 11 counts specifically for devising the fake-elector strategy, a finding the California Supreme Court upheld in April 2026.
State Bar Court of California / California Supreme Court disbarment order
Judicial record
State prosecutors brought separate criminal charges against slates of fake electors in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona.
State grand jury indictments
Judicial record
Georgia electors David Shafer, Shawn Still, and Cathleen Latham characterized their slate as 'contingent' — meant only to preserve Trump's litigation options while election challenges were pending — and pressed that theory in a bid to move their state prosecution to federal court; the Eleventh Circuit rejected the removal bid in October 2024 (No. 23-13360) on jurisdictional grounds (the federal-officer removal statute does not cover former officers), without ruling on the contingent-elector theory as a defense to the state charges. Michigan defendants raised the same contingent-purpose argument; the presiding judge dismissed all charges against the remaining 15 defendants in September 2025, citing insufficient evidence of intent to defraud.
Eleventh Circuit opinion, State of Georgia v. Shafer, No. 23-13360 (2024); reporting on the Michigan 54-A District Court's September 2025 bench ruling (Judge Kristen Simmons)
Defense position
Vice President Pence was pressured to reject or delay certification of the electoral count.
Trump and Eastman met with Pence in the Oval Office on January 4, 2021, where Eastman argued Pence could unilaterally reject or delay counting electoral votes; Pence rejected the theory.
House Select Committee testimony; Pence's public account of the meeting
Primary document
The California State Bar Court's disbarment findings against Eastman rested specifically on his authorship of the memos used to press this argument and his conduct at that meeting.
State Bar Court of California disbarment ruling
Judicial record
Pence stated publicly, and under oath to the House Select Committee, that he had no legal authority to reject or return electoral votes and declined to do so.
Pence public statements and House Select Committee testimony