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Trump Action Tracker – “Documenting the actions, statements, and plans of President Trump and his administration that echo those of authoritarian regimes and may pose a threat to American democracy, since January 2025…This project is led by Professor Christina Pagel, a UK-based health services researcher and science communicator. She created and maintains the dataset underlying …
Read the Full Report (PDF) “Today, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Minority Staff released a new report analyzing the cost to American consumers of President Trump’s attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency that has returned $21 billion directly to Americans who were cheated by big banks and …
CBO – “…The budget projections are based on CBO’s economic forecast, which reflects trade policy as of November 20, 2025, and economic developments and laws in place as of December 3, 2025. The budget projections also incorporate the effects of laws in place as of January 14, 2026. (CBO’s projections do not include the effects …
Fast Company: “As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration continues, keeping up with Immigrations and Custom Enforcement can feel like navigating a maze. From stories of agents raiding worksites and taking children in broad daylight to reported plans for new detention centers, the daily onslaught of alarming news makes it difficult to see the full …
The New York Times, Gift Article – “…Experts fear that Americans are losing their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction — and that fewer people seem to care about the difference. The online churn that now accompanies any major news event obscures the common reference points that once helped guide the country forward. With …
Follow up to CBP Murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis MN on January 24, 2026 [Note – Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting. The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo …
Street, Leslie and Runyon, Amanda, The Library of Congress at a Crossroads: Executive Overreach and the Future of Public Knowledge (January 25, 2026). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 26-07, Seattle University Law Review Online & Seattle Journal of Technology, Environment, & Innovation Law, forthcoming, 2026, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6155010 or …
Via Data is Beautiful: “Get The Facts data team published a chart that visualizes the increase in ICE’s funding under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. And if you want to see some other interesting charts related to ICE’s funding, you can find them here” Sources: Congress.gov. Visualizations made with Datawrapper.
“Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month. This letter responds to a request that the Congressional Budget Office estimate the costs associated …
The New York Times: “When Republicans muscled President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill through Congress last year, they gave a windfall to the Department of Homeland Security — including for Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with effectively no strings attached. Republicans allocated a total of $190 billion over four years, including $75 billion for ICE …
ProPublica – Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence – “The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews with six agency staffers. The plan was presented to DOT staff last month at a demonstration of AI’s “potential to revolutionize …
The New York Times Editorial Board (Gift Article): The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act. “The administration is urging Americans to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. Ms. Noem and Mr. Bovino are lying in defiance of obvious truths. They are lying in the manner of authoritarian regimes that require …
