Agency Damage Assessment Tracker
One row per federal institution: how much capacity, independence and mission it lost since 2025-01-20, how sure we are, and how long reversal would take.
Governed by the Agency Damage Assessment methodology (docs/agency-damage-assessment-methodology.md). Scores are read from each institution’s own profile and recomputed here; nothing is keyed into this table by hand.
How to read this. There is no national or government-wide score: adding ordinal scores across unlike institutions would produce a number no one can audit. A band always appears with its confidence grade, its coverage (the share of applicable weight we could score) and its evidence cutoff. A dash means the dimension is not yet scored. That is a gap in our evidence, not a zero.
Where the institutions stand
52 institutions are tracked: 25 scored, 27 still stubs (research started, nothing scored).
| Band | Institutions |
|---|---|
| Minimal | 1 |
| Strained | 6 |
| Impaired | 11 |
| Severely impaired | 5 |
| Critical | 2 |
Scored institutions
| Institution | Level | Band (composite), confidence, coverage, as-of | Recoverability |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Institute of Peace | independent-agency | Critical (85), medium confidence, 80% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting | independent-agency | Critical (80), medium confidence, 80% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| USAID | independent-agency | Severely impaired (77), medium confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and Voice of America | independent-agency | Severely impaired (72), medium confidence, 76% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 2 |
| Institute of Education Sciences | bureau | Severely impaired (64), medium confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | bureau | Severely impaired (61), high confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| FEMA | bureau | Severely impaired (60), medium confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | independent-agency | Impaired (54), medium confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Office of Personnel Management | independent-agency | Impaired (52), medium confidence, 76% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | bureau | Impaired (51), medium confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Merit Systems Protection Board | independent-agency | Impaired (50), medium confidence, 76% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 4 |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | bureau | Impaired (50), medium confidence, 73% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 2 |
| National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) | independent-agency | Impaired (49), medium confidence, 82% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 4 |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | independent-agency | Impaired (48), medium confidence, 77% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Federal Election Commission | commission | Impaired (48), medium confidence, 82% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Office of the Director of National Intelligence (incl. National Intelligence Council) | office | Impaired (47), medium confidence, 73% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Federal Trade Commission | commission | Impaired (44), medium confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 4 |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) | statistical-unit | Impaired (40), medium confidence, 92% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| National Institutes of Health | bureau | Strained (38), medium confidence, 80% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) | independent-agency | Strained (37), medium confidence, 76% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 2 |
| Social Security Administration | independent-agency | Strained (35), medium confidence, 76% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 2 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | independent-agency | Strained (31), medium confidence, 73% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 2 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | department | Strained (29), medium confidence, 90% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 1 |
| Office of Special Counsel (OSC) | independent-agency | Strained (26), medium confidence, 100% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
| DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) | oig | Minimal (18), medium confidence, 89% coverage, as of 2026-10-09 | 3 |
Recoverability is scored 0 (immediate) to 4 (over ten years, possibly permanent) and is a second axis. It is not part of the composite.
Dimension scores
Each dimension is scored 0 (no documented harm beyond the baseline) to 4 (function lost, captured or abolished).
| Institution | Workforce | Leadership | Mission | Independence | Data | Funding | Service | Legal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 2 |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | — |
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | — | 4 | — | 2 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | n/a | 0 | — | 1 |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | — | 2 |
| Federal Election Commission | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| FEMA | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | — | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Federal Trade Commission | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Institute of Education Sciences | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | — | 2 |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 3 |
| Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Merit Systems Protection Board | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | — | — | 1 | 0 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| National Institutes of Health | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 0 | — | 3 |
| National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | — | 0 | 2 | — |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | — | 2 | 2 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Office of Personnel Management | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 2 |
| Office of Special Counsel (OSC) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | n/a | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Office of the Director of National Intelligence (incl. National Intelligence Council) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | — | n/a | 1 |
| Social Security Administration | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 0 | 1 |
| U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and Voice of America | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 3 |
| USAID | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | — | 3 |
| U.S. Institute of Peace | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | — | 3 | — | 2 |
Preserve evidence now
Institutions rated Impaired or worse and recoverability 3 or 4. These are the cases where losing the record now costs the most later.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Election Commission
- FEMA
- Federal Trade Commission
- Institute of Education Sciences
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Merit Systems Protection Board
- National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Office of Personnel Management
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (incl. National Intelligence Council)
- USAID
- U.S. Institute of Peace
Band-sensitive
These institutions change band under equal weights or a capacity-heavy weighting. Read their band as a range.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG)
- FEMA
- National Institutes of Health
Research in progress (not yet scored)
These institutions passed the first screen: documented actions since 2025-01-20 affected their staff, funding, authority, data or mission. Each has a stub profile with the evidence gathered so far. No score is implied.
| Institution | Level | Parent |
|---|---|---|
| AmeriCorps | independent-agency | — |
| U.S. Census Bureau | statistical-unit | Department of Commerce |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | bureau | — |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | independent-agency | — |
| Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) | bureau | department-of-homeland-security |
| Department of Homeland Security | department | — |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | department | — |
| Department of State | department | — |
| DOJ Civil Rights Division Voting Section | office | doj-civil-rights-division |
| DOJ Public Integrity Section | office | — |
| Election Assistance Commission | commission | — |
| Energy Information Administration | statistical-unit | department-of-energy |
| Export-Import Bank of the United States | independent-agency | — |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation | bureau | — |
| Federal Inspectors General: CIGIE and the IG Community | independent-agency | — |
| Food and Drug Administration | bureau | department-of-health-and-human-services |
| General Services Administration | independent-agency | — |
| Library of Congress | independent-agency | Legislative branch (Congress) |
| National Center for Atmospheric Research | office | national-science-foundation |
| National Park Service | bureau | department-of-the-interior |
| Office of Government Ethics | office | — |
| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) | commission | — |
| Smithsonian Institution | independent-agency | — |
| Treasury Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence | office | — |
| U.S. International Development Finance Corporation | independent-agency | — |
| U.S. Postal Service | independent-agency | — |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | independent-agency | — |
Corrections
A score that depended on a corrected fact is re-run, and the earlier score stays in the profile’s history.
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