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President Trump’s first year in office saw the federal deficit for fiscal year (FY) 2025 come in around $1.8 trillion — roughly $41 billion smaller than FY2024 according to Treasury and CBO-era report...
Deportations rose sharply in 2024 and remained high into 2025, with ICE reporting roughly 271,000 removals in FY2024 and multiple analysts estimating 2025 removals in the hundreds of thousands—Migrati...
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...
Donald Trump’s administrations and campaigns have advanced a mix of policies supporters point to as successes — tax cuts, deregulation, tougher trade and immigration stances, and Middle East diplomacy...
Available reporting and official data do not give a single, uncontested projected total for U.S. deportations in 2026; instead they offer competing estimates and policy signals ranging from specific a...
The U.S. collected roughly $165–195 billion in tariff (customs duties) revenue in fiscal year 2025, with year‑to‑date calendar‑year or partial‑year tallies varying by source and cutoffs: Treasury and ...
Official and journalistic sources show wide, sometimes conflicting figures for 2025 removals: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced “more than 527,000 deportations” through October 27, 2...
Multiple reputable trackers and government releases report very large—but not identical—tariff receipts for 2025, with headline figures clustered roughly between $179 billion and $236 billion dependin...
Joe Biden’s presidency enacted large economic and social initiatives including the American Rescue Plan, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act and expanded health and drug-cost measur...
Fiscal 2025 saw tariff receipts surge to roughly $165–195 billion (Treasury-based and reporting sources vary), more than double FY2024’s ~$77 billion and several times the typical pre-2025 annual coll...
Official, public-source tallies show U.S. customs (tariff) receipts rose sharply after the 2018–19 trade actions and fluctuated thereafter: commonly cited figures include roughly $70–90 billion per ye...
The estimated annual fiscal impact of unauthorized immigration to U.S. taxpayers varies widely because analysts use different definitions and methods; prominent recent estimates range from a to a , wh...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it collected “more than $200 billion” in tariffs this calendar year as of Dec. 15, 2025 . Independent trackers and budget analysts show a range of estimat...
President Donald Trump’s administration has produced in the fiscal year 2025 deficit compared with 2024, driven largely by tariff revenue and short‑term spending patterns, but the and long‑term projec...
Estimates of government spending per deportee in 2025 vary widely: the Department of Homeland Security gives an average “arrest, detain and remove” cost of $17,121 per deportee (cited by DHS and multi...
Undocumented immigration presents a net-positive impact on the U.S. economy in aggregate under most mainstream models, but significant mean impacts vary across groups and policies. Widely cited empiri...
Best-available public analyses show a troubling rise in U.S. excess deaths from 2017 through 2024: a pre‑pandemic gap already evident in 2017, a massive spike during 2020–2021, and persistently elevat...
U.S. tariff collections surged in 2025 well above recent years: multiple trackers and government statements put fiscal‑year 2025 customs duties between roughly $195 billion and more than $200 billion,...
Projections from multiple independent policy shops show that the second Trump administration’s tariff program is expected to raise several trillion dollars in federal receipts over the coming decade o...
Federal debt measured as the gross national debt climbed through 2025 as the Trump administration enacted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and related policies; reporting shows the headline nati...