The Trump administration is pursuing an active agenda on tariffs, regulatory rollbacks, and executive actions, often moving on so many fronts that keeping track can be difficult. In response, several organizations maintain trackers covering developments across trade, regulation, environment, and immigration.
The following is a selected list of these trackers.
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Lawfare Trump Administration Litigation Tracker
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Lawfare, a Brookings affiliate, frequently updates a list of legal battles involving the Trump administration’s executive actions, particularly those dealing with national security and other issues. Tracking lawsuits filed by and against the administration, it summarizes each lawsuit’s subject matter and lists relevant information such as title, status, updates, court jurisdiction, and filing date.
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Akin Executive Order Tracker
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The law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld publishes a tracker following every executive order issued by the second Trump administration. Frequently updated with search and filter options, the tracker includes a summary of each executive order with a link to its original publishing—and includes an email subscription option to stay up to date with each executive order.
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Brookings Reg Tracker
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Brookings’ Center on Regulation and Markets publishes a tracker following “significant regulatory and deregulatory changes” by the Trump administration. Each entry includes a short timeline, plus a fact-checked summary explaining a policy’s background and impacts. Readers can filter by an action’s policy category or current status, as well as by involved government agencies.
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Project 2025 Tracker
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This community-driven report details the real-time progress of the Trump administration in carrying out the goals set by the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” mandate. It tracks public reports, hiring/firing plans, and policy priorities to determine the implementation success of objectives lobbied by the Project 2025 plan to rapidly alter federal government operations.
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Trade
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Harvard Business School Pricing Lab Tariff Tracker
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HBS Pricing Lab, measuring the impact of 2025 tariffs, constructs daily price indices from online data from four major U.S. retailers. It shows the trend for domestic goods versus imported goods.
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Hamilton Project Trade Tracker
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Brookings’ Hamilton Project charts frequently updated government data on merchandise imports and exports, duties on imports, prices on imports, prices of merchandise, and trade goods by end-use.
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Peterson Institute for International Economics Trade War Timeline 2.0
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PIIE’s Trade War Timeline 2.0 provides a frequently updated list of tariffs and sanctions actions and responses. Searchable by category-specific and country-specific trade actions, it tracks beyond just tariffs and includes underlying data and press releases from official sources.
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NPR Tariff Letter Tracker
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National Public Radio maintains a detailed, easy-to-follow list of tariff rates on U.S. trade partners. Sorted by country, it tracks previous and new tariff rates, official communications, and 2024 trade balances. The list also displays a live status of where trade relations stand officially between the U.S. and partners.
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Brookings Trade Tracker
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Brookings publishes a tracker focused on U.S. trade relations with its biggest trading partners, i.e., Canada, Mexico, China, the EU, and the rest of the world. Infographics display recent months of actions and responses and trace tariff rates and other trade activity.
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Yale Budget Lab State of U.S. Tariffs
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The Budget Lab at Yale publishes a comprehensive, in-depth collection of developments in U.S. trade policy. It includes eight measures, such as the effective tariff rates and the estimated impact of tariffs on GDP growth, as well as a list of policy changes in the preceding week.
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Environment
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Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program Regulatory Tracker
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The Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program details the Trump administration’s changes and rollbacks to federal regulatory policy surrounding clean energy and environmental protection. Each subject entry lists a summary, impact, and timeline across presidential administrations.
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Columbia University Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Climate Backtracker
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Columbia’s Climate Backtracker follows the Trump administration’s steps to “scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.” This frequently updated, table-based tracker details current news releases and draws on the Sabin Center’s climate change regulation database and previous trackers during the Biden and first Trump administrations.
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Immigration
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Hamilton Project Work Permit Application Tracker
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Brookings’ Hamilton Project charts the number of work applications from eligible immigrants. The interactive dashboard allows sorting by application approval rates, denial rates, pending totals, and length of time pending. It also allows toggling between level change and year-over-year change across metrics.
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Immigration Policy Tracking Project
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Lucas Guttentag of Yale Law School, working with law students from Stanford and Yale, posts a comprehensive and frequently updated list of Trump immigration policies from both his first and second terms. Policies are indexed and summarized with key documents included. They are also searchable by term number, subject matter, relevant agencies, and type of action.
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Tracking Trump’s actions on tariffs, the environment, immigration, and more
August 27, 2025