Trump's New America

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We were promised cheaper gas, a factory boom, and that other countries would pick up the bill. This is what actually showed up. Every number on this site comes from a named source, linked at the bottom, so you can check our work before you get mad.

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TRUMP'S NEW AMERICA

Store #47 · 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Cashier: Not my fault

Gas, per gallon, vs. last yr+$1.19

Tariffs, avg household, 2025$1,700

ACA premium, per month+$65

Factory jobs since "Liberation Day"-89,000

Measles cases, 20264,588

National debt$40.0T

TOTAL DUEYOU

No refunds. No exchanges. No accountability.

$4.23

Gallon of gas, national average. It was $3.04 a year ago.

3.7%

Inflation over the past year, as of September 2026.

$40T

National debt. Up $2 trillion in about ten months.

4,588

Measles cases this year. The most since 1991.

Outrageous act of the week

Week of Oct 26 to Nov 1, 2026

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This week's winner

Heads I win. Tails we sue.

Trump had the Justice Department sue Alaska to stop it from certifying its Senate race if the Republican loses. Then he told reporters it was his idea.

What happened

On October 22, the Justice Department went to federal court to block Alaska from certifying a win by Democrat Mary Peltola, because a second, unaffiliated candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan is on the ballot next to Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. The next day Trump said of the suit: "Well, I'm one that said, 'Do it.'"

Why it's a big deal

A president told his own Justice Department to challenge an election his party might lose, before any votes were counted. Election law experts said federal law doesn't give the Justice Department the power to block a state's certification at all.

His side

Republicans say the second Sullivan is a plant meant to confuse voters, and Alaska's election office tried to remove him. Two state courts, including the Alaska Supreme Court, let him stay on the ballot.

Where it stands

On November 1, federal Judge Sharon Gleason dismissed the case, calling what the government asked for "infeasible." The Justice Department is expected to appeal, and a separate criminal investigation is still open.

Embarrassment meter

Getting away with it?

Blocked by a judge. For now.

Sources: ABC News; PBS NewsHour; Yahoo News

01 / Your wallet

The pitch is crossed out. The number is what you got.

Energy

The pitch

Cut your energy costs in half.

+39%

Gas at the pump, Oct 2025 to Oct 2026

A gallon of regular averaged $4.23 on October 29, up from $3.04 a year earlier. Energy prices overall are up 20.4% in a year. It turns out that starting a war with Iran, which sits on the strait that carries about a fifth of the world's oil, is not a gas-saving strategy.

Sources: AAA; BLS CPI, Sept 2026; ABC News

Tariffs

The pitch

Other countries will pay.

$1,700

Average cost per household, 2025

Tariffs are a tax paid by the importer, and the importer passes it to you. The Yale Budget Lab put the 2025 hit at about $1,700 per household. When the Supreme Court struck down the emergency tariffs in February, the White House answered with a new 15% global tariff.

Sources: Yale Budget Lab via Poynter/PolitiFact

Prices

The pitch

End inflation, starting on day one.

3.7%

Annual inflation, September 2026

Day one came and went. Prices rose 3.7% over the past twelve months. Coffee is up 7.1%, electricity 4.4%, and clothing 3.4%. For comparison, it was 3.0% in January 2025, the month he took office.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

The debt

The pitch

Get the nation's finances in order.

$40T

National debt, crossed August 19, 2026

The debt hit $38 trillion in October 2025, $39 trillion in March, and $40 trillion in August. That is roughly a trillion dollars every five months, which works out to a little under $7 billion a day.

Source: U.S. Treasury via AP/PBS NewsHour

02 / Your health

Make America Healthy Again, results may vary.

Health insurance

The pitch

Better and cheaper health care.

+58%

Average ACA premium after subsidies, 2025 to 2026

The enhanced ACA subsidies were allowed to expire. The average monthly bill went from $113 to $178. Deductibles hit a record $3,786. Sign-ups fell by 1.2 million, the biggest drop since the marketplaces opened.

Source: Center for American Progress analysis

Medicaid

The pitch

Just cutting waste, fraud and abuse.

10M

More uninsured Americans by 2034

That is the Congressional Budget Office's estimate for the health provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, mostly from new Medicaid paperwork and eligibility rules. Ten million people is more than the population of New Jersey.

Source: Congressional Budget Office

Food assistance

The pitch

Protect people who truly need help.

4M+

People off SNAP, July 2025 to March 2026

SNAP participation fell 10% nationwide in nine months and dropped in every single state. In just 12 states, more than 700,000 children lost food benefits.

Source: Center for American Progress analysis

Public health

The pitch

Make America Healthy Again.

4,588

Measles cases in 2026, through Oct 22

More than double last year and the worst year since 1991, for a disease the U.S. declared eliminated in 2000. In 2025, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired every member of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee.

Sources: CDC via FOX 9; NBC News

Medical research

The pitch

Restore gold standard science.

$1.8B

NIH grants cut in under 40 days

Between February 28 and April 8, 2025, the NIH terminated 694 research grants. Studies were stopped partway through, so much of the money already spent produced nothing anyone can use.

Source: JAMA study via Fierce Biotech

03 / Your job

Factories, farms, and the folks who answer the phone.

Manufacturing

The pitch

Tariffs will bring the factories roaring back.

-89,000

Manufacturing jobs, April 2025 to Feb 2026

"Liberation Day" was April 2, 2025. Since then, the country has lost about 9,000 factory jobs a month. Tariffs on steel and parts raised costs for the same manufacturers they were supposed to protect.

Source: BLS data via Reason

Farms

The pitch

Stand up for the American farmer.

+19%

Farm bankruptcies, first 9 months of 2026 vs. 2025

There were 292 Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies through September, up from 246 a year earlier. Trade fights cost soybean growers their biggest customer, China, for most of 2025.

Source: National Agricultural Law Center

Tourism

The pitch

The world respects us again.

-6%

Foreign visitors to the U.S., 2025

The U.S. was the only major destination where international visits fell in 2025. Canadian visits in January 2026 were down 28% from two years earlier. Every missing tourist is a hotel, restaurant and tour guide paycheck that went somewhere else.

Source: World Travel and Tourism Council via Business Standard

Government

The pitch

Cut the fat, keep the services.

-277,000

Federal jobs, Jan to Nov 2025

That is about the population of Buffalo, gone from the federal payroll in eleven months. Among them: staff at Social Security, the FDA and the National Weather Service.

Source: BLS data via Washington Examiner

In fairness

We're petty. We're not dishonest.

Not every number is bad. Unemployment was 4.2% in September 2026, down from 4.4% a year earlier. Grocery prices rose a modest 1.8% over the past year.

That is real, and we'll say so. It is also hard to enjoy a stable paycheck when gas, insurance and the national credit card are all moving the other way.

Now what?

Complaining is free. These are almost free.

Step 1

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Every figure above, and where it came from. Figures current as of November 1, 2026.