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Comparing “better” under Biden or Trump depends on which metrics you use: inflation was much higher early in Biden’s term (peaking around 9% in 2022) but came down later, while early in Trump’s second...
A consistent set of reports finds that undocumented (commonly called “illegal”) immigrants paid roughly , and multiple analyses warn that changes in enforcement or data-sharing could reduce compliance...
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...
Estimates for how much undocumented immigrants paid in federal income taxes in 2023 cluster in a relatively narrow band when researchers disambiguate “federal income” from payroll and other federal ta...
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,...
Tariffs raise government revenue and can protect some domestic industries, but multiple recent analyses and news reports find sizable economic costs: models project long‑run GDP declines (~0.3–0.8%), ...
Donald Trump repeatedly promised to make life more affordable for Americans, including claims to lower grocery prices and overall cost of living; however, contemporary reporting and economic analyses ...
Inflation peaked at 9.1% in the 12 months ending June 2022 during the Biden presidency and Investopedia calculates Biden’s average year‑over‑year inflation at about 4.95% . Reporting from multiple out...
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...
Media coverage and economic analyses disagree on the scale of job losses linked to the 2025 tariff spree: many outlets cite manufacturing payroll declines of roughly 37,000–59,000 jobs since April 202...
AI so far has nudged unemployment upward in select pockets—notably among younger and some college‑educated workers—while overall unemployment effects remain modest in aggregate according to several re...
Tariffs enacted and expanded since April 2025 are empirically linked to a measurable uptick in consumer prices: model-based and empirical work estimates first-round effects ranging from roughly 0.5 to...
Measured estimates of the inflationary impact of President Trump’s second‑term tariff increases vary, but solid empirical research and market analysis point to a meaningful, if not catastrophic, effec...
Dynamic scoring alters tariff revenue projections by folding macroeconomic feedback—growth effects, trade-volume responses, retaliation and higher interest costs—into estimates that conventional (stat...
Federal programs to blunt tariff impacts include targeted producer aid such as the USDA’s $12 billion Farmer Bridge Payment Program for farmers and previously announced tariff exemptions/refunds for c...
Available reporting shows no broad, sustained fall in U.S. grocery prices since President Trump took office; some measures show modest month-to-month declines at times while most food categories remai...
Retail prices since President Trump took office in 2025 show a mixed picture: some headline measures of inflation have cooled to the low single digits according to White House claims, but independent ...
Donald Trump’s recent fiscal actions are claimed to have cut funding and shifted economic burdens in ways that could harm farmers, states, federal operations, and lower- and middle-income households; ...