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The federal deficit for fiscal year 2026, which ended Sept. 30, reached roughly $1.99 trillion, Treasury Department data released Oct. 16 show -- a 12% increase over fiscal 2025 and the third-highest deficit on record...
The U.S. Court of International Trade certified a nationwide class action on October 8, 2026, covering importers that paid tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act between February 1, 2025 and...
Federal Reserve Bank of New York economists found, in an Oct. 6, 2026, research post, that Trump's tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation by February 2026, and that goods prices would...
Trump announced on September 30, 2026, that South Korea would invest roughly $200 billion in U.S. projects, including $54 billion toward an Alaska LNG pipeline, as part of the tariff agreement reached with Seoul. South...
The U.S. Court of International Trade heard arguments on September 30, 2026, in a consolidated challenge to tariffs the Trump administration imposed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 on goods from roughly 60...
Trump, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Mesabi Metallics chairman Rewant Ruia announced a planned $15 billion steel mill in Lee County at the White House on September 28, 2026, promising 1,750 jobs by 2030. Commerce Secretary...
The U.S. and China on September 28, 2026 released lists of goods recommended for reduced tariffs under a "30-for-30" framework agreed after Trump and Xi Jinping's summit the previous week. Each country would allow...
Speaking September 13, 2026 at the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open, held at his own Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Doonbeg, Trump said he would remove the 10% U.S. tariff on Irish whiskey after golfers and...
Since February 2025, Trump has floated or ordered five rounds of direct payments to Americans, with sharply different outcomes. A DOGE-savings "dividend" of up to $5,000 per household, floated in February 2025 on Elon...
At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on September 9, 2026, President Trump promised to issue a $5,000 "dividend" to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in November. "I...