Trump 2.0: Material Consequences

Since his return to the Oval Office in January 2025, President Trump and his cast of conflicted appointees have adopted a chaotic approach to governing, regularly endangering the health, safety and wellbeing of people all over the world.

Our trackers listed below highlight the devastating consequences of the Trump administration’s: dismissal of essential federal workers; gutting of enforcement capacity at agencies tasked with cracking down on corporate wrongdoing; attacks on public data, environmental protections, public health precautions (e.g., food safety, vaccines), and financial regulations; assault on disaster preparedness and response efforts; and assault on aviation safety.

Tracking Material Impact: Memos, factsheets, and articles detailing how the Trump administration’s attacks on the civil service will materially affect people’s lives.

Trump’s Disastrous Disaster Policy: We are monitoring how the Trump administration’s callous policy choices, before and after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering and death.

• Interactive map documenting how Trump’s FEMA has delayed or denied federal disaster aid
• Interactive timeline documenting Trump’s wide-ranging attacks on disaster preparedness and response

Trump’s War on Public Data: We are tracking the Trump administration’s efforts to manipulate, erase, and undermine the quality of public data.

Corporate Enforcement Capacity: This tracker records cuts made by the Trump administration to enforcement capacity at agencies responsible for overseeing corporations’ activities and identifying wrongdoing. “Enforcement capacity” refers to staffing and funding dedicated to monitoring, oversight, investigation, and preparation of cases against corporations for breaking the law.

Public Health Trackers: We are closely following the Trump administration’s management of public health, including the admin’s response to public health crises.

• Food and Drug Safety
• Measles outbreak
• Bird flu outbreak
• Anti-Vaccine Actions

Environmental Harms Tracker: We are monitoring tangible increases in pollution and environmental and health harms caused by the Trump administration’s actions.

Aviation Safety: We created a resource to track aviation disasters and any future Trump Administration cuts to aviation safety.

Federal Understaffing Spotlight: The Revolving Door Project is analyzing the state of understaffing across the executive branch (a trend kept up by both Democratic and Republican administrations) and assessing what the drastic cuts the Trump administration is enacting would mean for everyday Americans.

Fed Worker Walk Outs: We are tracking career officials walking out of and resigning from agencies of their own accord, as the Trump admin forces them to choose between following the law or following Trump’s illegal orders.