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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
Color here is a legal and operational fact, not an opinion: whether the action is still in force, was reversed or never fulfilled, is contested in court, has concluded, or is irreversible.
Coverage by domain
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The honesty check on the whole archive. If nearly everything claimed Direct, the archive would be overreaching. Amber marks claims where credible sources reach incompatible conclusions.
Direct138
Contributory28
Contextual20
Disputed17
What the evidence is made of
Every estimate in the archive, grouped by the kind of institution that produced it. Advocacy sources are admissible but never appear alone.
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
2024-07-05 · Rule of law & institutions · claim
Project 2025 — the disavowal, and the implementation record
49 of 97
Tracker denominators are not comparable; figures move monthly.
Layer 1 — Action
Truth Social post of July 5, 2024 stating he knew nothing about Project 2025, had no idea who was behind it, and disagreed with some of what it proposed; the disclaimer was repeated in the September 2024 debate. In a later interview he said he disagreed with parts of it, not all of it.
Publicly disclaimed knowledge of the Heritage Foundation’s 920-page Mandate for Leadership during the 2024 campaign. Trackers now measure roughly half of its executive-action agenda as initiated or completed.
Layer 2 —
Disavowed in 2024; ~half the agenda implemented by 2026
The document itself is public and its authorship is documented. Several named contributors hold senior administration positions, including OMB Director Russ Vought, a lead author. In 2025 the President publicly cited Vought’s Project 2025 ties approvingly. No administration statement has claimed the blueprint as official policy.
Verified as of August 2026
The two leading trackers report similar-looking percentages against completely different denominators — 532 executive-action proposals versus 317 catalogued objectives — using different definitions of "complete." The percentages are therefore not comparable to each other, and neither is a measurement of how much of the 920-page document has become policy. One tracker publishes its methodology; the other does not. This archive cites the first and flags the second.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
Named Project 2025 contributors hold senior posts in the administration.
Russ Vought, an author of the Mandate for Leadership chapter on executive power, was confirmed as OMB Director in 2025.
Senate confirmation record
Primary document
Additional contributors were appointed across FCC, immigration enforcement, intelligence and State Department roles.
Appointment records and contemporaneous reporting
Government record and journalistic verification
The President publicly referenced Vought’s Project 2025 role approvingly in a 2025 post, after having disclaimed knowledge of the project in 2024.
Truth Social posts, 2024 and 2025
Primary document
A large share of the blueprint’s executive-action proposals has been initiated or completed.
283 of 532 identified executive-action proposals initiated or completed — 53% — twelve months after inauguration.
Center for Progressive Reform / Governing for Impact
Advocacy — progressive orientation; methodology published
Roughly 48-50% of 317 catalogued objectives complete or in progress.
Crowdsourced Project 2025 Tracker
Crowdsourced — no published methodology
Multiple independent trackers converge on approximately half of the document’s goals implemented in the first year.
PBS News review of trackers
Journalistic verification
Whether overlap demonstrates adoption of the blueprint.
Substantial overlap between a conservative think-tank agenda and a Republican administration is expected regardless of coordination; overlap alone does not establish that the document was the operative plan.
Methodological objection, stated on the record here
Archive’s own reasoning — not a source claim
The combination of personnel overlap, sequencing, and the specificity of matched actions is treated by trackers as evidence of adoption rather than coincidence.
Tracker methodology statements
Advocacy — progressive orientation; methodology published
No administration document adopts Project 2025 by name; the blueprint is not a policy instrument and cannot be "implemented" in a legal sense.