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U.S. Government Information: Trump Trackers

Guide to information resources by and about the federal government.

Tracking Tools

These tools may be helpful in keeping track of the many changes being made by the Trump administration. The list is updated as I become aware of new resources; no paywalled sites are included. Please feel free to contact me at k5smith@ucsd.edu with suggestions/comments.


Apportionment

  • OpenOMB (via Protect Democracy)
    • tracks how the president, acting through the Office of Management and Budget, implements Congress's spending laws

Cabinet/Appointees

Campaign Promises

Climate/Environment

Congressional Response

Corporate Enforcement

  • Corporate Enforcement Tracker (Public Citizen)
    • tracks federal investigations and cases against alleged corporate wrongdoing that are at risk of being dropped, weakened, or otherwise modified by the Trump administration

Education

Executive Orders

Federal Data & Information

Federal Policy

  • Federal Policy Watch (via Economic Policy Institute)
    • tracks how the Trump administration, Congress, and the courts are affecting workers' quality of life
  • Impact Map (via The Impact Project)
    • tracks/shows the local impact of federal workforce, funding, and policy decisions

Federal Workforce & Offices

Grants

  • Funding Freeze Tracker (via House/Senate Appropriations ranking members)
    • snapshot in time, on Trump's 100th day in office, of grants and other funds being blocked by the administration
  • NIH Grant Terminations in 2025 (via Noam Ross, rOpenSci and Scott Delaney, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
    • tracks specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025
  • NSF Grant Terminations 2025 (via Noam Ross, rOpenSci, and Scott Delaney, Harvard University)
    • tracks information on NSF grants that have been prematurely terminated since January 20, 2025

Health Care

Immigration

  • Immigration Policy Tracking Project (via Professor Lucas Guttentag, with teams of Stanford /Yale law students & national immigration experts)
    • catalogues known Trump administration immigration policies, with source documents
  • Tracking Notable Executive Branch Action during the Second Trump Administration (via American Immigration Lawyers Association)
    • tracks select changes to immigration-related regulations and policy proposed or promulgated by the second Trump Administration
  • United States Disappeared Tracker (via danielleharlow)
    • crowd-sourced visualization tracking names, dates, and other information of "persons brought into ICE custody when the Trump Administration has demonstrated undeniable political motive/animus and/or the person has been denied appropriate due process"

LGBTQ+

Litigation

Major Actions & Statements

Project 2025

Regulatory Changes

  • Regulatory Tracker (via Harvard Law School)
    • tracks regulatory and litigation actions related to clean energy deployment and environmental protection
  • Tracking regulatory changes in the second Trump administration (via Brookings)
    • allows you to monitor a curated selection of new, delayed, and repealed rules, notable guidance and policy revocations, executive actions, and important court battles across key policy areas such as environmental, health, labor, and more.

Reponses to Administration Demands

  • Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (via grassroots group of law students)
    • tracks law firms' reponses (caved/complied in advance/stood up/other/no response) to federal government attacks on lawyers, law firms, the legal profession, and freedom of speech and expression. 
  • Tracking Our Institutions (via Brandon Silverman)
    • tracks responses (resisting/capitulating/mixed) of major U.S. institutions—universities, media companies, law firms, mayors and others—to administration demands

Tariffs & Trade

University of California

  • Federal Updates (via UCOP)
    • not a "tracker" in the same sense as others on this page, but serves as a resource for tracking the UC response to "quickly evolving federal policy shifts"
  • Federal Updates (via UCSD)
    • provides informational updates for the UC San Diego community