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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
A side‑by‑side "chart" comparison of Joe Biden and Donald Trump must separate measurable economic outcomes (GDP, jobs, inflation) from policy choices (taxes, trade, immigration) and from claims that h...
Tariff collections under President Trump surged in fiscal 2025 to roughly $195 billion (Treasury totals reported by multiple outlets), and analysts project the new tariff program could raise about $2....
Tariffs raise the cost of imported final goods and imported inputs, and many economists and institutions find that at least part of those higher costs is passed on to U.S. consumers (for example, the ...
The available reporting paints a mixed picture: consumer price growth has slowed since President Trump took office but prices overall have not fallen, and many of his signature policies — especially t...
Available reporting shows wide, sometimes inconsistent measures of how much tariff revenue the U.S. has taken in so far in 2025: several data-driven trackers and budget analysts put fiscal-year 2025 c...
Independent economic studies consistently find that mass deportation would shrink U.S. GDP in both the short and long term, with short‑run shocks ranging from roughly 1–7 percent below baseline within...
Biden-era policy combined record-high activity on immigration (605 executive actions by Dec 2024) with efforts to limit asylum through agreements and rule changes that cut encounters by over 40% in ea...
Independent economists broadly judge Trump’s post‑2024 tariff thrust as contractionary for growth, inflationary for consumers, and prone to trade diversion—while acknowledging offsetting effects from ...
President Trump’s 2025 policies—most notably sweeping, high tariffs, tax-cut extensions and pressure on the Federal Reserve—had mixed effects: headline and core inflation in late 2025 were reported lo...
Calendar-year and fiscal accounting produce different answers, but independent trackers and government statements place tariff collections tied to the 2025 tariff surge in the rough neighborhood of $1...
President Trump’s second-term economic agenda has had mixed short-term results: GDP growth showed pockets of strength (Wall Street and Treasury forecasts saw recoveries and some quarters with solid gr...
Donald Trump’s 2025 economic agenda emphasizes big tax cuts, sweeping tariffs and deregulation and has produced mixed near‑term readings: the White House cites 3.8% Q2 GDP and “explosive growth” from ...
President Trump’s tariff program has produced substantial but contested federal receipts: recent government tallies and independent trackers show , while academic and policy estimates project anywhere...
Removing the 2025 tariffs would, in most major models, lower headline inflation in 2026 by a few tenths to about one percentage point relative to the path with tariffs, and raise 2026 real GDP growth ...