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The national debt rose from roughly $36.2 trillion when President Trump began his second term on Jan. 20, 2025, to at least $38 trillion by Oct. 23, 2025 — an increase in the neighborhood of $1.8 tril...
The federal poverty guidelines used for ACA subsidy eligibility in 2026 restore traditional 100%–400% of FPL rules for most enrollees unless Congress extends enhanced subsidies; eligibility therefore ...
The federal government’s annual gross cost for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace premium tax credits rose from $18 billion in 2014 to about $92 billion in 2023 and is estimated at roughly $138 bil...
The national debt rose substantially during President Biden’s term: headline Treasury-style totals commonly cited put gross federal debt from about $27.8 trillion at inauguration (Jan 20, 2021) to rou...
Donald Trump’s presidency is variously reported as having increased the federal debt by roughly , depending on the method and timeframe used; different analyses count either legislation’s estimated te...
Repayment rules for excess advance premium tax credits (APTCs) changed for tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2025: under the 2025 budget reconciliation law, the dollar caps that limited how much peop...
The simplest, widely used accounting is that the gross federal debt rose by about $7.8 trillion during Donald Trump’s first term — from roughly $19.95 trillion the day before his inauguration to about...
The most consistent, widely-cited estimates place the increase in U.S. national debt during Donald Trump’s four years in office at roughly $7.8 trillion to $8.4 trillion, but the exact number depends ...
The U.S. national debt rose roughly $7.8 trillion during Donald Trump’s presidency, from about $19.95 trillion at the start of 2017 to $27.75 trillion at the start of 2021 (gross totals reported by bu...
Tariff collections jumped to roughly $195–$250 billion in FY2025 and helped shave the 2025 budget deficit, but available reporting shows they did not meaningfully reduce the $38+ trillion national deb...
There are two different, defensible answers depending on what “this term” means: if it refers to Donald Trump’s first term (2017–2021), the national debt rose by roughly $7.8 trillion to $8.4 trillion...
Tariff receipts surged in fiscal 2025, with the U.S. Treasury taking in roughly $195 billion in customs duties that year — more than triple 2024 levels — though analysts disagree on how much of that i...
Average health insurance premiums in the individual and employer markets have diverged over the past decade, with recent analyses showing , while marketplace pre-subsidy premiums rose from roughly $58...
The question as phrased appears to ask how much federal debt has been added during President Trump’s second term; reporting provides partial but clear markers: the United States’ gross national debt s...
The simplest answer: the U.S. government ran roughly $1.7–$1.8 trillion in deficits in 2025, which—by standard accounting—was the amount added to the national debt that year (the fiscal-year figure re...
Two recent, widely cited analyses find that gross federal debt rose under both Presidents Trump and Biden, with Trump’s four-year term adding roughly $7.8–$8.4 trillion of new borrowing and Biden addi...
When President Biden left office in January 2025, headline measures show the federal debt rose from about $27.6–$27.75 trillion at the start of his term to roughly $36.2 trillion by mid-January 2025, ...
Available reporting gives different ways to measure how much debt rose during the Biden administration: simple totals show roughly $8.4–$8.5 trillion added to gross federal debt between January 2021 a...
At the end of FY 2024 (September 30, 2024) the U.S. federal debt totaled about $35.5 trillion on a gross basis reported by GAO auditing Treasury’s schedules, while “debt held by the public” — the econ...
Official and independent trackers show tariff collections rose sharply in 2025: the Treasury’s Monthly and other trackers report figures ranging from about $165 billion through August to $195–202 bill...