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Reporting and advocacy outlets say the Trump administration has canceled multiple taxpayer‑funded animal experiments and redirected agency policy toward phasing out certain animal testing (examples in...
The President can issue executive orders directing agencies to identify and attempt to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” but longstanding constitutional limits, prior cour...
Most reporting shows the White House submitted an alternative pay plan that would raise most civilian federal base pay by 1.0% for 2026 while freezing locality pay; select federal law‑enforcement cate...
Debate over whether Donald Trump is “a dictator” is active in U.S. and international media: critics point to a large number of executive orders, Project 2025 planning and moves they call “power grabs,...
The Trump administration has not, in the sources provided, been shown to have cut monthly VA disability payments already being paid; VA compensation rates rose via a 2.5% COLA for 2025 (effective Dec....
A set of early 2025 executive orders clearly track major Project 2025 prescriptions—most notably orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI); transgender service in the military; sweeping f...
Project 2025 functioned as a blueprint and personnel pipeline that materially shaped many of the Trump administration’s early executive actions and regulatory priorities, with multiple trackers and ne...
President Biden signed a $95 billion foreign-aid package in April 2024 that included large allocations for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan . More broadly, U.S. international assistance under Biden reached ...
The White House announced a one‑time $1,776 "warrior dividend" to roughly 1.45 million active service members, framing it as a patriotic bonus funded by tariff revenue and timed for pre‑Christmas deli...
Congress’s FY2026 Homeland Security appropriations—at least as reported in House committee text and analyzed by the Congressional Research Service—allocates roughly $11.0 billion to U.S. Immigration a...
A year-by-year accounting of U.S. federal budget deficits for the last 15 fiscal years (FY2010–FY2024) is provided below using official historical deficit series compiled by federal data repositories ...
The available analyses show that official U.S. collections reported as “customs duties” or as CBP duties/taxes/fees differ by source and definition: . These discrepancies stem from different agencies’...
Project 2025 is a 900‑page "Mandate for Leadership" playbook from the Heritage Foundation that maps hundreds of conservative executive‑branch changes and personnel plans; in the first year of the curr...
Recent reporting and research show that urban areas generally lean Democratic while rural areas lean Republican, and multiple sources report lower voter turnout in many rural places compared with non‑...
Federal civilian pay for 2026 is unsettled in public reporting: several outlets report President Trump submitted an Alternative Pay Plan proposing a 1% across‑the‑board GS raise and a 3.8% boost for s...
The President gains over which federal employees continue working and which are furloughed during a lapse in appropriations, but lacks unilateral power to reallocate funds or make permanent workforce ...
OpenAI is not a private arm of government intelligence agencies that routinely hands over all user data, but it does respond to lawful government requests for user information and—under recent federal...
Roughly half of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 “wishlist” has been put into motion through a mix of executive orders, regulatory changes, hiring choices and congressional moves—actions tracked...
Federal agencies and positions exempt from a shutdown fall into two main buckets: operations funded outside annual appropriations (like the U.S. Postal Service and certain benefit programs) and whose ...
At least 670,000 federal employees were furloughed during the 2025 shutdown, while roughly 730,000 additional employees were required to work without pay, according to contemporaneous agency contingen...