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Sources

Every chart on this site names its sources in its own footer. This page collects them in one place, with links to the primary documents wherever a stable public link exists. Government datasets, Congressional Research Service reports, court records, and named watchdog trackers are linked directly; newspaper reporting is cited by name where the underlying article is paywalled or has no stable URL. All links verified August 2026.

Core datasets

A small set of institutional sources does most of the work across the site.

Money & self-dealing

Net worth in office

  • Forbes wealth estimates; Bloomberg Billionaires Index (paywalled).
  • House Oversight Committee report on foreign-government payments (Jan 2024, from Mazars USA records).
  • Federal financial disclosures filed with the Office of Government Ethics.

Foreign government money

  • House Oversight Committee report (Jan 2024, from Mazars USA records covering two years and four of 500+ businesses).
  • CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) foreign-emoluments tracking.
  • Wall Street Journal reporting on the World Liberty Financial stake purchase (Feb 2026, paywalled); Center for American Progress (May 2026); House Financial Services Committee review; contemporaneous ABC/NYT/NBC/AP reporting.

Media settlements to the president

  • The president's 2026 OGE financial disclosure for the settlement totals.
  • Contemporaneous PBS, CBS, Forbes, Washington Post, and Axios reporting on the ABC, CBS/Paramount, Meta, YouTube, and X settlements; FCC and merger records.
  • Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, and FIRE press-freedom analyses; New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964).

Income from own financial products in office

  • The president's 2026 OGE financial disclosure (crypto line items) and the Democracy Defenders Fund and press analyses summing them (Time, CBS, ABC).
  • House Oversight Committee Democrats' Digital Grift tracker (Jan 2026); OCC Corporate Decision #1385 (Aug 2026); the GENIUS Act; SEC dismissal filings.

Stock trades in office

Public money at the president's properties

  • GAO-19-178, the Government Accountability Office's accounting of early Mar-a-Lago travel costs.
  • CREW and Washington Post FOIA litigation for Secret Service spending records.
  • American Oversight (Department of Defense lodging records, 2017–2019).
  • Judicial Watch FOIA records for Obama-era travel-cost comparisons.
  • OpenSecrets and FEC disclosures for campaign and donor spending at the properties.

The revolving door

Executive power

Executive orders per year

Signing statements

  • CRS RL33667, Presidential Signing Statements: Constitutional and Institutional Implications.
  • American Presidency Project signing-statements archive (Hoover 1929 to present).
  • American Bar Association Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements (2006); Charlie Savage's contemporaneous Boston Globe reporting.

National emergencies

Foreign-intelligence surveillance

Vetoes

  • U.S. Senate, “Vetoes by President” (senate.gov/legislative/vetoes); American Presidency Project veto data; reporting on the Dec 2025 vetoes and failed Jan 2026 overrides.

Press conferences

  • The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara), Presidential News Conferences statistics and its solo-conference analysis.

Records opened by directive

  • National Archives release pages and tranche logs (JFK, RFK, MLK); Executive Order 14176 (Jan 2025) via the Federal Register; Department of War / ODNI UAP (PURSUE) releases; PBS/CNN/NPR reporting.

Family in government roles

  • White House and State Department appointment records and archives; the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel opinion on the anti-nepotism statute (Jan 2017); 5 U.S.C. §3110 and its legislative history.
  • AAPS v. Clinton (D.C. Cir. 1993); contemporaneous reporting on the Kushner special-envoy and Boulos appointments.

Troops in American cities

  • Court records in Newsom v. Trump, Illinois v. Trump (Supreme Court order, Dec 2025), and the Oregon and D.C. cases; Brennan Center analysis.
  • Contemporaneous NPR, CNN, and AP reporting on each deployment; the 1965 Selma federalization for historical context.

Institutions that paid under pressure

  • Bloomberg Law's tracking of the $940M in law-firm deals; the four district-court rulings striking the firm orders (D.D.C., 2025) and the pending D.C. Circuit appeal.
  • NPR and OPB reporting on the ~$406M in university settlements and the Harvard and California rulings; the “Compact for Academic Excellence.”

Military action without Congress

Covert drone strikes

  • New America, “America's Counterterrorism Wars” strike trackers for Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
  • Bureau of Investigative Journalism “Drone Wars” database; Airwars; the Long War Journal.
  • Just Security on the 2019 revocation of Executive Order 13732; Council on Foreign Relations on Obama's final strike data; Al Jazeera and Semafor on the 2025–26 Somalia escalation.

Watchdogs removed

Law & courts

Nationwide injunctions

  • CRS R48467, R48476, R48600 (2025), and R49022 (One Year After Trump v. CASA, Jul 2026).
  • Harvard Law Review, District Court Reform: Nationwide Injunctions, 137 Harv. L. Rev. 1701 (Apr 2024).
  • U.S. Department of Justice count (Feb 2020).

Judicial appointments

  • Federal Judicial Center Biographical Directory of Article III Judges; Senate Judiciary Committee and congress.gov confirmation records; Ballotpedia federal judicial vacancy counts for the live figure.

Prosecuting the president's critics

  • DOJ and U.S. Attorney indictment releases; court dismissal rulings (E.D. Va., Nov 2025); the CRS analysis of the unlawful U.S. Attorney appointment.
  • PBS/NBC/CNN reporting on the Bolton plea; the 2022 order appointing Special Counsel Jack Smith and Biden's on-record statements declining to direct prosecutions.

Leak & whistleblower prosecutions

Full pardons

Adjudicated personal legal liability

Officials criminally convicted

  • Department of Justice and federal and state court records for each named conviction or plea.
  • Contemporaneous AP/PBS reporting for dates and outcomes.

Business, charity & corporate findings

  • FinCEN, the $10M Trump Taj Mahal penalty (2015; prior $477,700 penalty in 1998).
  • New York Attorney General, the Trump Foundation judgment and dissolution.
  • N.Y. state court records (Trump Organization tax-fraud conviction, 2022; civil-fraud liability and 2025 appellate ruling); Trump University settlement records (2018).

Sexual misconduct allegations

  • S.D.N.Y. court records for the Carroll verdicts; Supreme Court orders (appeal exhausted Aug 17, 2026).
  • Contemporaneous on-record reporting for allegation counts, which the chart labels as allegations, not findings.

Government shutdown days

  • U.S. House Office of the Historian, the record of every funding lapse.
  • Congressional Research Service shutdown records; contemporaneous reporting for the 2025 shutdown.

Transparency matrix

  • Public tax-return releases and archives; OGE financial disclosures; White House visitor-log policies (2009, 2017, 2021, 2025).
  • The Hur report (special counsel, Feb 2024) and National Archives records for the documents rows.
  • CRS R44974 for the ethics-pledge history (E.O. 13490 → 13770 → 13989).

Economy & immigration

Debt by president

Stock market by president

  • S&P 500 daily closes (Yahoo Finance / stooq); Robert Shiller's data set for price, dividends, CPI, and the CAPE valuation ratio (econ.yale.edu, multpl.com).
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U for the inflation adjustment.

Real GDP growth

  • Bureau of Economic Analysis real GDP via FRED (GDPC1); BEA quarterly estimates.

Unemployment change

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (UNRATE); BLS Employment Situation; BLS notice on the 2025 shutdown data gap.

Inflation

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI via FRED (CPIAUCSL, CPILFESL); BLS CPI releases.

Jobs & wages

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics nonfarm payrolls (FRED PAYEMS) and Real Earnings releases; FactCheck.org's BLS-based per-term job tallies; reporting on the 2025 benchmark revision.
  • The Economic Policy Institute productivity-pay gap tracker; Atlanta Fed and BLS analyses of the 2020 wage-composition effect.

Federal deficit

  • Congressional Budget Office Monthly Budget Review; OMB Historical Tables; Treasury Fiscal Data; FRED (FYFSGDA188S); CBO’s September 2026 Monthly Budget Review (via American Action Forum and CRFB summaries) for the FY2026 estimate.

Legal immigration

  • DHS Office of Homeland Security Statistics, Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Table 1) and FY2025 data.
  • Congressional Research Service on the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (R47399, IF13277); State Department Refugee Processing Center; Federal Register refugee-ceiling determinations.

Deportations per year

Border crossings, and the 2025 collapse

  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection, monthly Southwest/Nationwide Land Border Encounters (via CBP newsroom releases and the public-stats dashboard); Pew Research Center analysis of CBP data (Feb 2026).
  • Congressional Research Service on the June 2024 asylum proclamation; contemporaneous reporting on stepped-up Mexican enforcement (Dec 2023–2024) and the January 2025 executive actions and end of CBP One.

The draft & the bankruptcies and False statements

Public protections

Environmental enforcement

  • EPA Enforcement Annual Results (FY2007–FY2025); Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Jan 2026) and the Environmental Integrity Project (Feb 2026) first-year comparisons.
  • Harvard EELP and Columbia Sabin Center regulatory-rollback trackers.

Workplace-safety inspectors

  • AFL-CIO “Death on the Job” annual reports (federal OSHA inspector series, 1997–2026); Department of Labor Office of Inspector General; Senate testimony on 2025 OSHA staffing.

Consumer financial protection

  • CFPB enforcement records and 2025 year-end enforcement summary (consumerfinance.gov); American Banker and National Consumer Law Center tallies of actions by year; reporting on the 2025 dismantling.

Food safety: the whole ledger

  • GAO-25-107571 (Jan 2025) on FDA food-facility inspections, and FDA's inspections data dashboard, for the foreign-inspection spine.
  • FDA and HHS announcements: the FD&C Red No. 3 revocation (Jan 15, 2025, the prior FDA), the petroleum-dye phase-out (Apr 2025, a voluntary “understanding”), and the GRAS-reform directive (Mar 2025); ProPublica and the Center for Science in the Public Interest on the 2025 inspection decline and the voluntary nature of the dye action.
  • The USDA Federal Register notice withdrawing the Salmonella-in-poultry framework (Apr 2025); the FDA traceability-rule delay (Mar 2025); Supreme Court, Monsanto v. Durnell (Jun 2026, glyphosate preemption); the Feb 2026 glyphosate executive order; CDC on the FoodNet surveillance change; reporting on the defeated farm-bill pesticide-preemption rider.

The deregulation ledger

  • Office of the Federal Register / National Archives annual page counts, as compiled in the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Ten Thousand Commandments 2025; George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center rule counts.
  • OMB reginfo.gov EO 13771 accounting and the EO 14192 (2025) “10-for-1” order; American Action Forum regulatory-cost analyses (deregulatory lean, labeled as such); GAO-21-104305 and Brookings Institution critiques noting the estimates omit foregone benefits.

Public well-being

Medical research grants terminated

  • APHA v. NIH litigation records and the Supreme Court order (Aug 21, 2025) allowing terminations to proceed; the Nature and Science grant-termination trackers for the 2025 counts (a range by date).
  • CRS R43341 on NIH appropriations, documenting that Congress rejected the proposed ~40% cut and enacted a small increase; reporting on the ~1,200 NIH staff reductions and the (struck-down) 15% indirect-cost cap.

Uninsured rate

  • CDC National Health Interview Survey uninsured estimates (annual series from 1997), including the 2023 annual low of 7.6% and the April to June 2023 quarter at 7.2%.
  • KFF and Congressional Budget Office projections of coverage loss from the enhanced ACA premium tax credits expiring at the end of 2025.

Measles cases

  • CDC, Measles Cases and Outbreaks, and MMWR outbreak reports; Our World in Data for the CDC-sourced annual series.
  • Pan American Health Organization on the November 2025 regional elimination-status loss; contemporaneous reporting on the 2025 deaths and the June 2025 vaccine-advisory-committee change.

Child poverty

  • U.S. Census Bureau “Poverty in the United States” Supplemental Poverty Measure reports (P60 series), including the 2021 record-drop edition and the September 2026 report (P60-290), whose revised historical table the chart uses.
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Columbia Center on Poverty and Social Policy on the expanded Child Tax Credit and its expiration.

The trajectory

Democratic backsliding

  • Freedom House, “Freedom in the World” US country reports (2017–2026 aggregate scores).
  • The Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index (2006–2025), including the 2016 “flawed democracy” downgrade.
  • V-Dem Institute Liberal Democracy Index and Democracy Report 2026 (the 2025 downgrade to “electoral democracy”), via the V-Dem dataset and Our World in Data.

Polarization & political violence

  • Voteview / DW-NOMINATE (Lewis, Poole, Rosenthal et al.), congressional party-polarization data.
  • U.S. Capitol Police annual threat-assessment statistics (2016–2025), via contemporaneous Roll Call, NBC, and Washington Post reporting.
  • University of Chicago CPOST and PRRI surveys on attitudes toward political violence; court and news records for the dated incidents.

Clean energy: momentum & reversal

  • U.S. Energy Information Administration, wind + solar generation shares and 2024–25 records (Today in Energy / Electric Power Monthly).
  • The 2025 reconciliation law (“One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” Jul 2025) repealing the clean-energy tax credits, plus the January 2025 wind memo, nuclear executive orders, and energy-emergency declaration.
  • Princeton REPEAT Project, Rhodium Group, and Energy Innovation buildout/emissions projections; Clean Investment Monitor / E2 on canceled investment; court records on the December 2025 vacatur of the wind memo.

Housing affordability

Clean air

  • U.S. EPA, “Our Nation's Air” and Air Quality System trends (national PM2.5, 2000–2025); the D.C. Circuit ruling of June 26, 2026 upholding the 2024 standard.
  • EPA rulemaking on the 2024 PM2.5 standard and its 2025 reconsideration; American Lung Association “State of the Air”; reporting on the 2023 and 2025 wildfire-smoke seasons.

The fading American Dream

The murder rate: a record decline

U.S. energy production: record highs

  • U.S. Energy Information Administration, field production of crude oil (annual); dry natural gas production (annual); Monthly Energy Review and Short-Term Energy Outlook.
  • EIA “Today in Energy” record notes for the 2023–2025 crude, natural-gas, and total-energy records and the 2026–27 production forecast.

The goods trade deficit

  • U.S. Census Bureau, Trade in Goods with World (Seasonally Adjusted), annual goods balance 1993–2025; FT900 “U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services” monthly releases for 2024–2026.
  • U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, International Trade in Goods and Services, December and Annual 2025 (first estimates, since revised: the services surplus is now about $328B and the goods-and-services deficit about $932B; the chart’s Census-basis goods deficit is $1.23T); the August 2026 trade release (Oct 6, 2026) for the August goods deficit of $132.1B.
  • Contemporaneous Reuters/Census reporting on the December 2024–March 2025 pre-tariff import front-running and the April 2025 tariffs; Congressional Research Service and Federal Reserve primers on the saving–investment identity behind the trade balance.

Elections

Elections, measured · Election fraud, counted · Noncitizen voting · The cost of the cure · state pages

Spending

Where the money goes · 19 category pages · 64 subcategory pages · The safety net

  • Program-level data: Office of Management and Budget, Public Budget Database, outlays by account (FY2027 Budget, April 2026; FY1962–2025 actuals), from the OMB budget materials.
  • Reconciliation and history: OMB Historical Tables 1.1 (receipts, outlays, deficit), 3.2 (outlays by function and subfunction; every subcategory on the site matches it), and 10.1 (GDP and the GDP price index used for inflation adjustment), from the Historical Tables page.
  • Cross-check: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement (Table 9, outlays by function, FY2025 final: $7.010 trillion, within 0.02% of OMB's $7.011 trillion).
  • Definitions: mandatory, discretionary, and net-interest categories are OMB's budget-enforcement (BEA) classifications as recorded in the Public Budget Database. “Means-tested” programs on the safety-net page are this site's selection of the largest programs whose eligibility depends on low income.

Bailouts

Who got bailed out · 24 bailout pages · Farm aid, 1996–2026

Regulations

The rules, and the rollback · Protections rolled back · The independent regulators

Corruption tracker

The corruption tracker · full ledger

  • Every entry lists its own sources on its card. The primary documents used most: Trump's 2026 financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e); the Justice Department's clemency list; SEC and FEC filings; court rulings; and agency and company statements. For the 2020 election: the House January 6 committee's final report, the federal indictment, Special Counsel Smith's final report, and the Supreme Court's immunity opinion. For the Epstein files: Justice Department memos, transcripts, and releases, and the Epstein Files Transparency Act. For the first term: the Mueller report, the Government Accountability Office's Ukraine decision and presidential-travel report, the House and Senate impeachment roll calls, and inspector general and Office of Special Counsel reports. Executive orders and memoranda are cited from the White House and the Federal Register. For the Constitution, Justice Department, and investigators pages: Supreme Court opinions, district and appeals court orders (many read on CourtListener), Government Accountability Office decisions and reports, and inspector general reports. For market timing: his Office of Government Ethics transaction reports (Form 278-T) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission orders. For the family and contracts pages: federal contracting records as analyzed by CNN and ProPublica, Senate roll calls, and Foreign Agents Registration Act filings.
  • Reporting relied on: Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Forbes, CNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, PBS, the BBC, the Guardian, HuffPost, Politico, and ProPublica. Taxpayer travel costs are press estimates built on a Government Accountability Office method and are labeled as estimates.
  • Identified as advocacy or partisan where used: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Public Citizen, Campaign Legal Center, the Brennan Center for Justice, Just Security, Justice Connection, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Global Witness, and staff reports and letters from congressional Democrats. Counts from these groups are labeled as theirs on each entry.
  • Neutral companion charts on this site: income from own financial products in office, foreign government money, media settlements, pardons, watchdogs removed.
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