Contacting Elected Officials: Tracking Recent Federal Actions

There are many organizations tracking the changes the Trump administration is making to the federal government and its processes. Below are some of the major ones grouped by general topic area. Thanks to the UCSD Library for creating the original list this one is based on.

Resources for Tracking Changes Affecting Higher Education

• Federal Updates (via University of California)
  • Tracks changes and UC's response.
• UCB Federal Updates 
  • Tracks changes and impacts at UCB
• Political Attacks on Higher Education (via American Association of University Professors)

Cabinet and Other Political Appointees

• Political Appointee Tracker (via Partnership for Public Service and the Washington Post)
• Trump Cabinet confirmation status: Which nominees have been confirmed? (via the Associated Press)
• Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest (via Public Citizen)
  • tracks prior employment and former clients/business interests of nominees
• Tracking Trump's Cabinet Nominee Hearings, Confirmations (via GovCIO)

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 the Associated Press)

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 steps 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
• 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

• 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 

Data Rescue Projects

• Data Rescue Tracker (via Data Rescue Project). 
  • See also, Bluesky and original crowd-sourced google document

Executive Orders

• Executive Orders (via the Federal Register)
  • Official source from the U.S. for Executive Orders going back to 1937.
• Tracking Trump’s executive actions (via CNN)
  • tracks executive actions, including executive orders, proclamations and memos, posted by the White House
• Tracking the Legal Showdown Over Trump’s Executive Orders (via US News & World Report)
  • tracks lawsuits challenging some of Trump's biggest executive orders
• Tracking Trump's executive orders (via NBC News)

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 Reduction, Layoffs, and Firings

• Government Executive's Workforce
• Tracking Trump's Overhaul of the Federal Workforce (via CNN)
• Latest Memos from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management 
• FedScope- Data on the federal workforce

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

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. 

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)
  • Updated every Monday

Project 2025

• Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker (via Center for Progressive Reform)
  • Direct link to tracker document

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.

The following newspaper databases are updated daily and are available to UCB students, faculty, and staff. 

You can use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to find removed information.  On this site, you can enter the address of a government website (epa.gov; dol.gov; hhs.gov; etc), then choose a recent date the site was archived on.  TIP: choose the most recent date with the largest circle.  This will show you the site as it was on that day.  Keep in mind that search boxes, video content, and databases within the site will probably not work.

Along with this, you can use a website called DiffChecker to compare the text of websites to see what changes have been made. This is one of several tools that can help track scrubbing, changes, etc to websites.