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It has been a little over four months since President Donald Trump’s second administration began rapidly reshaping the government and its mission, with significant consequences for the country and the world. ProPublica is committed to helping readers understand this pivotal moment in our nation’s history, and to chronicling the effects of what promises to be a drastic change in the role of the federal government in all of our lives.

Journalism like ours is a public service mission. When change is sweeping and rapid, we know readers need a trusted news source that will take a step back from the breaking news cycle to account for the context, and the consequences. For instance, when the Department of Government Efficiency was launched, little was known about who was working behind the scenes. So we compiled the backgrounds of the key figures working alongside Elon Musk at DOGE <[link removed]> in a database that has continued to generate critical insights into DOGE staffers <[link removed]> and potential conflicts of interest <[link removed]>, the agency’s funding <[link removed]>, and its moves to shrink the Department of Veterans Affairs <[link removed]>.

Since January, ProPublica has also reported on the wholesale closure of federal agencies <[link removed]> created by Congress; a buried measles forecast <[link removed]>; dropped consumer protection investigations <[link removed]>; the elimination of offices focused on civil rights or equity for veterans <[link removed]> and schoolchildren <[link removed]>; how the full force of the federal government came down on Maine because of its policy on trans children playing sports <[link removed]>; and cutbacks at Social Security <[link removed]>, despite Trump saying it “wouldn’t be touched,” among many, many other stories.

This administration’s actions may be unprecedented, but ProPublica is resourced and ready. Over the past 17 years, we have closely covered the actions of the federal government, from disaster rebuilding programs that inadvertently punished poor people <[link removed]> to the failings of regulators to curb the presence of formaldehyde even though it causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant <[link removed]>. As we have done for each presidential administration since our founding, our reporters will keep getting answers to the fundamental questions about new government policies: Who is benefiting? Who is suffering? What are the unintended consequences?

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