Legislative Research for GOVT 452

Check the congressional budget submission requests for individual agencies for Fiscal Years on the appropriations websites. Funding legislation must originate in the House of Representatives, but it's important to check the relevant subcommittees for each of these agencies within each legislative chamber's appropriations committee.   

For instance, the Commodities Future Trading (CFTC) is funded, on the Senate side, by Subcommittee | Subcommittee List | Subcommittees | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations their Financial Services and General Govt. Committee.  Check hearings, markups, and reports done by each committee and 3know that while the budgets are supposed to be completed by October 1 that has not happened in a long time and that Congress will have to enact continuing resolutions (CR's) to fund these agencies at existing levels to avoid a shutdown.

House Appropriations: https://appropriations.house.gov/

Senate: https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/

Some agencies also list budget information on their site. For example, here is the link for the CFTC report: https://www.cftc.gov/About/CFTCReports/index.htm 

Please view the below link to the UC San Diego guide. It provides many sites that are tracking government agencies, data, personnel changes, and more during the second Trump administration.

UC San Diego Guide: https://ucsd.libguides.com/usgov/trumptrackers  

Additional agency trackers below may also be useful:

Brookings Agency Regulation Tracker

Congressman Steve Cohen Executive Order Tracker 

2025 Administration Actions: Key Executive Orders and Policies

Federal Administration Actions - Tracking & Monitoring Sites