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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
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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
Venezuela operation and the capture of Nicolás Maduro
95 of 97
Legal justification is classified; occupation status unresolved.
Layer 1 — Action
Overnight strikes on Caracas, January 3, 2026; Maduro and Cilia Flores flown to the United States. Announced by the President from Mar-a-Lago. No congressional authorization was sought; the 2002 Iraq AUMF and Article II commander-in-chief authority were cited.
US forces struck Caracas and removed the Venezuelan president to the United States to face a 2020 federal indictment, following months of maritime strikes on alleged drug vessels.
Layer 2 —
Operation concluded; occupation question and war powers fight unresolved
Maduro and Flores pleaded not guilty in the Southern District of New York. Venezuela’s Supreme Court appointed Vice President Delcy Rodríguez interim president for 90 days and the military recognized her. The President said the US would "run" Venezuela during a transition; the Secretary of State said the US does not plan to govern directly but will maintain an "oil quarantine." A Senate war powers resolution failed 50-50 on a Vice-Presidential tiebreak.
Verified as of August 2026
A classified legal justification cannot be evaluated by the public, and this archive will not characterize the legality of an opinion it cannot read. What is documented is the operation, the absence of authorization, the vote, and the charges.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
A sitting foreign head of state was seized by US forces and brought to trial in a US court.
Maduro and Flores were indicted in 2020 on narco-terrorism, cocaine importation and weapons charges; both pleaded not guilty in January 2026.
SDNY court record
Judicial record
Described by legal scholars as the most aggressive use of military force against a foreign head of state in a generation.
Constitutional and foreign-policy scholarship
Academic / peer-reviewed
Casualties and the preceding maritime campaign.
At least 67 people killed in 16 drone strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels between September and November 2025.
CBS News count cited in Senate debate
Journalistic verification
Strikes on more than 30 vessels in total, per the administration’s own description of the campaign.
Administration statements
Party to the action
The Cuban government stated 32 Cubans, including military or intelligence personnel, were killed during the January operation.
Cuban government statement
Foreign government — interested party
Legality under domestic and international law.
The administration relies on a Department of Justice opinion it has declined to release publicly.
Administration position
Party to the action
The ranking Democrat on House Intelligence called the operation "clearly illegal under international law."
Rep. Jim Himes
Named legislators — interested parties
Congress declined to constrain the operation: 50-50, broken by the Vice President.
Senate roll call, January 14, 2026
Primary document
Law professor Jonathan Turley argued the capture required no congressional approval, citing the 1989 capture of Manuel Noriega and the pattern of unilateral presidential use of lethal force by both parties as controlling precedent.
Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, George Washington University
Academic, sympathetic to the administration's Article II theory