For the past two years, Republicans lawmakers in Congress have given the President nearly unanimous support. Yet, according to Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael Shear’s March 14 New York Times article “Congress Has a Breaking Point. This Week, Trump Might Have Found It.” the seams are starting to show in the blanket support President Trump has been enjoying. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Sheryl considers what three recent bipartisan measures, all passed with the help of defecting Republicans, tell us about the current state of Trump's influence on the Hill.

With both President Trump and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions previously vowing to reduce Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations into areas like local law enforcement, few Americans would be shocked to discover that civil rights enforcement has decreased at the agency under the Trump administration. Yet according to a VICE News report by Rob Arthur, DOJ civil rights prosecutions have dropped 60 percent in the first two  years of the Trump administration compared to President Obama's time in office and are 50 percent lower than they were during George W. Bush’s presidency. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Rob considers what this reduction means for Americans' right to equal protection under the law.

With 16 states, the ACLU, the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition all suing President Trump in at least four different lawsuits over his declaration of a national emergency over what he describes as "illegal immigrants streaming across the southern border," this appears to be yet another battle headed for the Supreme Court. On this week’s TrumpWatch, Washington Post reporter Amy B. Wang unpacks what the President declaring a national emergency means in both the long and short term.

According to a new Center for Public Integrity analysis, from the time the Republican tax plan was unveiled on November 2, 2017 until the end of the year, dozens of billionaires and millionaires gave a total of $31.1 million to Republican members of Congress, a sharp increase from what they gave in previous years during that same period. On this week’s TrumpWatch, reporter Peter Cary, one of the authors of the Center for Public Integrity study, examines whether Republican donors bought the passage of the tax bill by withholding their political contributions until it was passed.

As President Trump weighs another government shutdown or declaration of a national emergency over his demands for a border wall and considers the increasingly expansive Special Counsel, there is no shortage of potential calamities swirling around his second State of the Union address. On this week’s TrumpWatch, White House reporter for POLITICO Gabby Orr returns to the program to break down the President’s remarks and consider what they tell us about his agenda.

The federal government is back open for business. But from the 15,000 migrant children being detained in the US, according to a report in the Guardian, to the Commerce Department effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census to President Trump’s threats of a second government shutdown over funding for a wall on the southern border, immigration remains the dominant political issue of the day. This week on TrumpWatch, Senior Director of Immigrant Rights Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition Anu Joshi  explains the ways that activists are battling the Trump administration's punitive immigration policy in the courts.

With Democrats picking up 40 seats in the midterm elections, the party currently holds a commanding 36-seat majority in the House of  Representatives. On this week's TrumpWatch, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of the book “It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America” David Cay Johnston returns to the show to explore what the new House majority will mean for the mounting investigations of the President.

As President Donald Trump approaches the two-year anniversary of his inauguration, it is indisputable that he has changed many of the norms of the office. On this week's TrumpWatch, Robert Costa, the host of “Washington Week” on PBS and a national political reporter for the Washington Post, reflects on the ways this President has reshaped the executive branch in his first two years in office.

Donald Trump’s prime-time Oval Office speech on Tuesday night employed a sensationalistic tone that was a departure from the way past presidents have used this forum. On this week’s TrumpWatch, reporter Noah Lanard of Mother Jones fact checks the President’s claims like “criminal gangs, drug smugglers and human traffickers are streaming across our southern border."

On Dec. 22, President Trump shut down the federal government in response to Senate Democrats' refusal to include $5 billion to fund a border wall  as part of their 2019 budget. With national parks and museums closed along with all “nonessential” government agencies, the shutdown is being felt across all areas of public life. In this episode of TrumpWatch, White House reporter for POLITICO Gabby Orr explains the course of events that got us here.