With the second Trump administration and the 119th Congress in power, the Center for Progressive Reform is defending our safeguards and standing up for our democracy. We’re also driving, supporting, and showcasing progress and positive developments on climate justice, environmental justice, a just energy transition, and more when and where they occur in the states.
By building a People’s Regulatory Agenda, we can make a clear statement about what our priorities are and how they contrast with that of the Trump administration. You can help.
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump repeatedly denied any knowledge of or full support for the Project 2025 agenda. As president, however, Trump and his team are now warmly embracing its recommendations and including them in early executive orders.
Trump has also nominated several Project 2025 contributors to key positions in his administration, including key architect Russell Vought. Vought leads the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a role he played during Trump 1.0.
We’ve coordinated with Governing for Impact to track the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025 recommendations. Visit our tracker page, which contains a major February 2026 update, to explore the databases we’ve compiled.
We’ve also offered a constructive alternative to Project 2025, and while we don’t expect the second Trump administration to take it up, it can serve as an outline for future administrations focused on the public interest.
The Center for Progressive Reform is tracking numerous Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions, the threats they pose to our public protections, and the benefits that would be lost if they pass. Learn more about this dangerous anti-regulatory law and the special interests behind the resolutions in the 119th Congress. The page includes an analysis of resolutions passed, benefits lost, and gains for special interests.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the questionable leadership of Elon Musk, quickly became the signature initiative of the second Trump administration. Personnel associated with DOGE fanned out across the executive branch, dismantling agencies from within by hacking their IT infrastructure, firing staff, and attempting to shut down entire agencies.
DOGE’s actions epitomized the administration’s hostile attitude toward the law and the U.S. Constitution. Despite assertions that it would act with complete transparency, instead DOGE did so covertly, with little to no checks from the executive or legislative branches.
To help congressional leaders, policymakers, and citizens understand the ways that DOGE’s actions may have been unlawful, as well as how its activities continue to reverberate in agencies following its disbanding, the Center established the Dismantling Docket: DOGE and Beyond tool that tracks unlawful cuts to federal staff and funding, both past and ongoing. The tool also assembles background resources and materials related to legal challenges, and it outlines a variety of legal and advocacy strategies for responding to past and ongoing actions. You can explore the embedded tracker below, or you can click to open a full-size version in a new tab.
We plan to continue to update this tool on a regular basis by cataloging ongoing developments in lawsuits, academic think pieces, and information and analyses from other reputable sources.
Contributing to this project are Center for Progressive Reform Board Member and Member Scholar Alejandro Camacho and volunteer law students Serapia Kim, Semmie Lee, Liam Lemay-Fruchter, Maggie Maser, Rachel Sondkar, and Derek Yeghiazarian.
Suggested citation: Online Tool, Serapia Kim, Semmie Lee, Liam Lemay-Fruchter, Maggie Maser, Rachel Sondkar, Derek Yeghiazarian, Alejandro Camacho, and Center for Progressive Reform, The Dismantling Docket: DOGE and Beyond (Sept. 10, 2026), https://progressivereform.org/tracking-trump-2/#dismantling-docket-doge-and-beyond-tracker
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