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Taxpayers pay for Trump's pet projects
East Wing
Trump promised the East Wing project would be 100% privately funded with an estimated cost of $300 million. The cost has soared to $600 million, half of which is coming from taxpayer dollars.
After the attempted shooting at t...
No voting machine was hacked: What we know from what President Trump didn't say in his address
No votes were altered
Here’s the bottom line of Trump’s speech according to Fox News:
Trump did not claim China changed votes or altered election results.
No votes were altered in recent elections, according to what the President di...
Foreign powers are trying to interfere with U.S. elections, but voting machines haven’t failed us yet
President Trump’s Thursday night address will reveal purportedly declassified intelligence about voting machine vulnerabilities, Reuters reported. That prompted us to take a look at what’s known about foreign interference in past U.S. elect...
Continued Self Dealing and Cronyism
In January, we did a two-part recap of the Administration’s corruption throughout 2025. Here’s a look at how some of those in Trump’s circle have profited from government favor in the first six months of 2026.
Trump Administration sett...
Threats on Congress, how Congress's Librarian is appointed, and other updates from First Branch Forecast
Our colleagues Daniel Schuman and Chris Nehls at First Branch Forecast, another newsletter you can subscribe to here on Substack, have some updates that we thought you’d be interested in. (Congress is the first branch of government mentione...
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Tracking the U.S. Congress and the White House at www.govtrack.us.
Democracy, congressional reform. Writes the First Branch Forecast for the American Governance Institute.
Writer and political enthusiast.
I am a turtle (am I?) and the founder of GovTrack.us. By day, I am a software engineer at a scientific software company.
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