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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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Direct138
Contributory28
Contextual20
Disputed17
What the evidence is made of
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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
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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
2019-12-01 · Economy & trade · initiative
Unemployment at a 50-year low in 2019
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Layer 1 — Action
Not a discrete statute or order: a measured labor-market outcome during the first term, recorded because it was repeatedly claimed as an administration achievement and is checkable against primary BLS series.
The national unemployment rate fell to levels last seen in 1969, and annual average rates for Black and Hispanic workers reached the lowest points in each series, during the late first-term expansion.
Layer 2 —
Historical; the 2019 readings are fixed
BLS published a fourth-quarter 2019 national rate of 3.5%, the lowest quarterly rate since 1969. Annual averages for 2019 were 6.1% for Black workers and 4.3% for Hispanic workers — each the lowest annual average in that series history at the time of publication. The expansion that produced these readings began in June 2009; the pandemic recession ended the stretch in early 2020.
Verified as of August 2026
Contemporaneous political claims often treated the 2019 lows as proof of unique policy success. The levels themselves are Direct BLS measurements. Whether any specific first-term statute (TCJA, deregulation, trade policy) accelerated the decline beyond the path the expansion was already on is not settled in the primary-document and peer-reviewed literature cited here, so this entry does not claim Direct causation for the decline — only for the measured rates.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
The national unemployment rate reached its lowest level since 1969.
BLS reported the unemployment rate at 3.5% in the fourth quarter of 2019 — the lowest quarterly rate since 1969, when it was 3.4%. The contemporaneous December 2019 Employment Situation release also printed a monthly rate of 3.5%.
BLS Monthly Labor Review, April 2020; BLS Employment Situation — December 2019 (empsit_01102020)
Government statistical agency
Later seasonal-adjustment revisions to the CPS monthly series moved some 2019 monthly prints (including December) by a tenth of a percentage point; the BLS MLR quarterly characterization of a 3.5% fourth-quarter rate and the contemporaneous monthly release remain the primary published record for how the period was reported at the time.
BLS CPS seasonal adjustment practice; series LNS14000000 revisions
Government statistical agency
Annual average unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic workers reached series lows in 2019.
The 2019 annual average unemployment rate was 6.1% for Black or African American workers and 4.3% for Hispanic or Latino workers — each the lowest annual average in the history of that series as of the BLS race-and-ethnicity report for 2019.
BLS, Labor force characteristics by race and ethnicity, 2019
Government statistical agency
BLS also reported that in the fourth quarter of 2019, the unemployment rates for Black workers (5.6%) and Hispanic workers (4.1%) were at record lows for those quarterly series.
BLS Monthly Labor Review, April 2020
Government statistical agency
The decline continued an expansion that began under the prior administration; credit for the level is therefore Contextual rather than Direct.
The business-cycle expansion dated from June 2009. CBO’s January 2019 Budget and Economic Outlook projected that output would continue to run above its maximum sustainable level in 2019, further pushing down the unemployment rate — a path consistent with continuation of the prior expansion rather than a discrete new labor-market regime.
CBO, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029 (January 2019)
Nonpartisan congressional scorekeeper
No credible source attributes the entire 2009–2019 decline to any single administration; the archive records the 2019 levels as Direct measurements and the causal credit as Contextual.