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Different data compilers report divergent totals for U.S. firearm deaths in 2024: a CDC-based compilation and aggregators that include suicides put the total near 44,400 deaths (USAFacts), while incid...
U.S. military recruitment has reversed years of shortfalls and is up in 2024–25: the Army contracted more than 61,000 recruits for FY2025—about 10% higher than its FY2024 goal—and the services reporte...
U.S. unemployment rose from an annual average of 4.0% in 2024 to monthly readings around 4.1–4.3% in early-to-mid 2025, with the December 2024 jobless rate at 4.1% and August 2025 at 4.3% (monthly) — ...
There is no direct, cited statistic in the available sources that states what percentage of Somali‑born or Somali‑immigrant households in the United States receive government assistance; the sources i...
U.S. deportations jumped sharply in FY2024 to 271,484 removals, the highest single-year ICE total in nearly a decade and a 90.4% increase over FY2023 . Partial 2024 and 2025 tallies and multiple agenc...
Roughly one in eight Americans received SNAP (food stamp) benefits in 2024–25: USDA data show SNAP served about 41.7 million people in fiscal year 2024 — roughly 12.3% of the U.S. population — and oth...
Available reporting measures “deportations” in multiple ways—ICE “removals,” CBP expulsions/returns, and voluntary self-deports—so a single presidential total is not straightforward. Migration Policy ...
Publicly available reporting and government releases provide only fragmentary, indirect evidence about how the racial and gender makeup of ICE enforcement officers changed between 2010 and 2024: a mid...
The federal agency responsible for immigration enforcement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), operated in fiscal year 2024 on a budget in the neighborhood of $9–10 billion, although the ...
Available reporting shows the U.S. deportation picture is complex: federal agencies publish country-by-country removals and returns, and independent trackers report both hundreds of thousands of remov...
“Blue states” is a media shorthand for U.S. states that systematically vote Democratic or tilt Democratic on measures like presidential margins, the Cook Partisan Voting Index, or party control of sta...
Blue states do contribute a disproportionate share of federal tax receipts relative to red states, with several analyses reporting that states that vote Democrat provided nearly 60% of federal revenue...
In recent reporting and data analyses, nonprofit USAFacts and media outlets show a clear pattern: a group of "donor" states send more federal tax dollars to Washington than they receive back in federa...
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...
Available reporting in the provided documents does not show either the House or the Senate having formally demanded President Trump’s resignation; sources instead focus on legislative fights over spen...
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...
State-by-state percentages of registered Republicans are published compilations from state election offices; USAFacts’ August 2025 dataset reports 37.4 million registered Republicans out of about 189....
Official and reputable post-election analyses put 2024 turnout between about 64% and 65.3% of the eligible U.S. electorate: the University of Florida Election Lab and related reporting cite roughly 64...
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...
Census and multiple research outlets show turnout in the 2024 presidential election was high by modern standards — roughly 65.3% of voting-age citizens voted according to the Census Bureau’s CPS estim...