"In more recent years, Pagel has pivoted again, using her skills in data tracking and public communication to lift the lid on what is behind Donald Trump's most egregious policy decisions. Pagel is behind the Trump Action Tracker -the world's only comprehensive dashboard of the actions, statements and plans of the Trump administration."
"Pagel said her "slow slide" from public health research came from trying to make sense of the sheer volume of actions taken by the White House in those first few months -it quickly became apparent that there was a pattern to what seemed like a "scattergun" approach. "In most cases, you cannot just see the escalation in activity, you can see the growth of the legal underpinning of the way that people are trying to prepare the ground," she told Times Higher Education."
Christina Pagel moved from space physics to operational research and health care before applying data tracking and public communication to monitor the Trump administration. She created the Trump Action Tracker, a comprehensive dashboard cataloguing actions, statements and plans. Her small volunteer team manually logged almost 2,500 entries since January 2025 that may pose a threat to American democracy. The Tracker shows how early legal changes enabled expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement powers and contributed to the administration's immigration crackdown. Pagel documents escalating actions and the growth of legal underpinning preparing the ground for broader policy shifts and links early moves to attacks on voting and public confidence.
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