U.S. Government Information: Trump Trackers

These tools may be helpful in keeping track of the many changes being made by the Trump administration. Please feel free to contact me at k5smith@ucsd.edu with suggestions/comments.

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Apportionment

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

Cabinet/Appointees

• Trump Cabinet confirmation status: Which nominees have been confirmed? (via AP)
• Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest (via Public Citizen)
  • tracks prior employment and former clients/business interests

Campaign Promises

• MAGA-Meter: Trump's Second Term (via Politifact)
  • tracks campaign promises and rates whether the promise was achieved
• Tracking Trump's presidential promises (via AP)
  • tracks status of campaign promises; links to related AP articles for additional information

Climate/Environment

• Climate & Clean Energy Rollback Tracker (via Climate Action Campaign)
  • tracks actions to roll back, attack, and weaken key climate policies
• Climate Backtracker (via Sabin Center)
  • identifies step taken to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures
• Federal Environmental Justice Tracker (via Harvard Law School)
  • tracks regulations, policies, and other federal actions that affect communities' exposure to environmental pollution
• Federal Environmental Web Tracker (via EDGI)
  • direct link to 2025-  google sheet
  • tracks documented changes to environment-related federal webpages that EDGI’s team deems noteworthy; relaunched 3/3/25, to be updated weekly
• Inflation Reduction Act Tracker (via Sabin Center & Environmental Defense Fund)
  • tracks changes in the status of climate programs established via the Inflation Reduction Act
• Silencing Science Tracker (via Sabin Center & Climate Science Legal Defense Fund)
  • monitors anti-science actions

Congressional Response

• Congressional Review Act - Overview and Tracking (via National Conference of State Legislatures)
  • tracks status of CRA joint resolutions
• U.S. House votes 2025: Is Your Rep Standing Up to Trump? (via Jonathan Cohn)
  • tracks every vote the US House has taken so far this year and how often each representative votes with Trump 

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

Data Rescue Projects

• Data Rescue Tracker (via Data Rescue Project; see also, Bluesky and original crowd-sourced google document)
  • catalogs existing public data rescue efforts to coordinate better across initiatives

Executive Orders

• Tracking Trump’s executive actions (via CNN)
  • tracks executive actions, including executive orders, proclamations and memos, posted by the White House
• CBCF Executive Order Tracker (via Congressional Black Caucus)
  • tracks executive orders "we believe will have profound implications for Black Americans"
• Rescinded Order Tracker (via Littler Law Firm)
  • tracks EOs issued by previous administrations that are rescinded by the Trump administration
• Tracking Legal Challenges to Trump's Executive Orders (via US News & World Report)
  • tracks lawsuits challenging some of Trump's biggest executive orders

Federal Policy

• Federal Policy Watch (via Economic Policy Institute)
  • tracks how the Trump administration, Congress, and the courts are affecting workers' quality of life

Federal Workforce

• Tracking Trump’s overhaul of the federal workforce (via CNN)
  • tracks the number and percentage of employees fired by agency

Health Care

• Health Care Sabotage Tracker (via Protect Our Care)
  • monitors all of the ways Donald Trump targets 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

LGBTQ+

• Trump Accountability Tracker (via GLAAD)
  • monitors Trump’s LGBTQ record and history including executive orders, legislative support, nominations and statements
• HRC's Accountability Tracker (via Human Rights Campaign)
  • tracks legal and policy threats from all three federal branches

Litigation

• Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
  • tracks actions related to immigration, the civil service, anti-discrimination law and practice, challenges to presidential authority, and more. Includes case summaries and documents. 
• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (via Just Security)
  • tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions. Includes case summaries and documents. 
• Trump Administration Litigation Tracker (via Lawfare)
  • tracks legal challenges to executive orders, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them

Major Actions & Statements

• All of the Trump Administration’s Major Moves in the First __ Days (via New York Times)
  • tracking major actions and significant statements during the first 100 days of the term; updated daily
  • allows filtering by category and type of action/announcement
• Tracking Trump – updates on the presidency’s first 100 days (via The Guardian)
  • tracking major developments of the first 100 days, updated every Monday

Project 2025

• Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker (via Center for Progressive Reform)
  • direct link to tracker document
  • tracks the implementation of Project 2025 across 20 federal agencies

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.

Tariffs & Trade

• Trump 2.0 tariff tracker (via ReedSmith)
  • tracks the latest threatened and implemented U.S. tariffs, as well as counter-tariffs from other countries around the world
• Trump Tariffs: Tracking the Economic Impact of the Trump Trade War (via Tax Foundation)
  • tracks tariffs and tariff investigations that have been threatened, initiated, and/or imposed

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