Sources
Every metric on PoliMetrics links to its source. Below is the full list of sources referenced across all trackers.
Trump 18 metrics
⚡ Executive Orders & Governance
conservativeusa.net ×1 DOJ — Office of the Pardon Attorney (2025–present) ×1 Federal Register ×1 Federal Register 2025 ×1 Federal Register 2026 ×1 The New York Times - Trump Administration Entices Millions of Federal Workers to Resign ×1 Wikipedia - 2025 United States federal mass layoffs ×1 Wikipedia — Executive clemency in the second Trump presidency ×1 Wikipedia — Pardon of January 6 defendants ×1
📊 Trade & Economy
CBO — The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2025 to 2035 ×1 Penn Wharton Budget Model — Effective Tariff Rates (April 15, 2026) ×1 SCOTUSblog — Supreme Court strikes down IEEPA tariffs ×1 Tax Foundation — Trump Tariffs & Trade War Tracker ×1 U.S. Treasury — Debt to the Penny (daily figures) ×1 U.S. Treasury — Monthly Statement of the Public Debt ×1 Wikipedia — United States debt ceiling ×1 Yale Budget Lab — One Year of Tariff Analysis ×1 Yale Budget Lab — State of U.S. Tariffs: April 2, 2026 ×1
🌍 Foreign Policy & Conflicts
Al Jazeera - Explosions reported in Tehran as strikes begin ×1 Al Jazeera — Full list of 66 organizations ×1 Al Jazeera — US led historic foreign aid decline in 2025 (OECD) ×1 Associated Press - Conflict erupts between Israel, U.S. and Iran ×1 KFF — U.S. Foreign Aid Freeze & USAID Dissolution: Timeline ×1 Reuters - Iran war escalates weeks after initial strikes ×1 Reuters - Israel says it carried out pre-emptive attack on Iran ×1 White House — Fact Sheet (Jan 7, 2026) ×1 White House — Presidential Memorandum (Jan 7, 2026) ×1 White House — UNHRC & UNRWA EO (Feb 4, 2025) ×1 Wikipedia - 2026 Iran war ×1 Wikipedia — USAID in the second Trump administration ×1
🚧 Immigration & Borders
Axios — ICE deported 442,000 last fiscal year (April 15, 2026) ×1 CBP — Enforcement Statistics FY2025 ×1 CBP — Southwest Land Border Encounters ×1 DHS — Lowest Fiscal Year Border Patrol Apprehensions Since 1970 ×1 DHS OHSS — Noncitizen Removals, Returns, and Expulsions FY1892–2022 ×1 House Committee on Homeland Security — FY25 Border Brief ×1 Johnston's Archive — U.S. Border Patrol Statistics by Year ×1 Migration Policy Institute — A New Era of Immigration Enforcement ×1 TRAC — Taking Stock: Trump Administration Record on Detention and Removals ×1
🌡️ Environment & Energy
🎰 The Rest of the Scorecard
📁 The Epstein Files
USA 7 metrics
💵 Economy
BLS — Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers ×1 BLS — Current Unemployment Statistics ×1 Congressional Budget Office — Budget Outlook ×1 FRED — Unemployment Rate (UNRATE) ×1 U.S. Dept. of Labor — Minimum Wage History ×1 U.S. Treasury — Debt to the Penny ×1 Wikipedia — Minimum wage in the United States ×1 Wikipedia — National debt of the United States ×1 Wikipedia — Unemployment in the United States ×1
🏛️ Government & Budget
🔬 Innovation & Science
🌱 Environment & Energy
Canada 6 metrics
💰 Economy
🏛️ Government & Politics
🤝 US–Canada Relations
European Union 7 metrics
🇪🇺 The Union
📊 Economy & Trade
🏛️ Parliament & Politics
Supreme Court 3 metrics
Elon Musk 8 metrics
💰 Wealth & Power
🪓 DOGE
DOGE savings tracker — doge.gov ×1 Executive Order creating DOGE — White House ×1 Fortune — DOGE says it's saved $55 billion, itemized data show far less ×1 NPR — DOGE tried to embed in the GAO, which is part of Congress ×1 NPR — DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones ×1 PBS NewsHour — A look at the misleading claims on DOGE's wall of receipts ×1 Wikipedia — Department of Government Efficiency ×1
𝕏 X (Twitter)
🚀 Space & Tech
Broadband Breakfast — Starlink hits 10 million subscribers ×1 Jonathan McDowell — Starlink launch statistics ×1 SpaceXNow — Launch statistics ×1 TechCrunch — Starlink hits 4 million subscribers (Sept 2024) ×1 Wikipedia — List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches ×1 Wikipedia — List of Starship launches ×1 Wikipedia — SpaceX Starship flight tests ×1 Wikipedia — Starlink ×2