In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new “reciprocal tariffs,” President Donald Trump held aloft a misleading chart that claimed to give a breakdown of the tariffs other countries charge the U.S. and the corresponding tariff that the U.S. will now impose against those countries.
Days before he ordered, and then paused, new tariffs on U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico, President Donald Trump argued that the U.S. does not need imported products such as crude oil and lumber from those countries. Experts told us it’s not that simple.
On Inauguration Day, we provide a look at various metrics on the state of the country at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators comes less than three weeks before Election Day.
As Biden enters the final months of his presidency, we look at various statistical measures of what’s happened during his term.
The total U.S. trade deficit with China in goods and services in 2023 was about $252 billion, the lowest it has been in 14 years. Former President Donald Trump was way off when he falsely claimed that the U.S.-China trade gap is about four times as high.
Our latest quarterly update on the state of the U.S. during the Biden presidency.
Our latest quarterly look at various statistical measures during Biden’s presidency.
Statistical measures of the economy, immigration, oil production and more since Biden became president.
Our latest update of what’s happened in the U.S. under Biden’s presidency.