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▲$2.8T
added to the national debt so far this term
18 months in; the JEC reported $2.77T year-over-year in April 2026
Net cost
Added since January 2025 — from $36.22T to roughly $39T. Borne by future taxpayers through debt service; sources put the range at $2.2T–$2.8T depending on cut-off.
Gross national debt · Treasury / Federal Reserve
▲53
more federal judges confirmed this term
On top of 234 in the first term
Transfer
10 appellate, 42 district, 1 Court of International Trade. Ahead of the 2018 confirmation pace but with a far thinner pipeline — 60 nominees submitted against 137 by this date in 2018.
Lifetime judgeships filled this term · Senate confirmation record
▲716K
total jobs added, Jan 2025 – Jun 2026
vs. 2,007,000 in the final 17 months prior
Transfer
Positive but roughly a third the pace of the preceding 17 months. Private sector +902K, offset by federal cuts.
Total nonfarm employment · BLS via FactCheck.org
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10-year deficit effect — OBBBA
$ trillions, 2025–2034
CBO, excl. interest3.4
CBO, incl. interest4.1
CBO, dynamic (thru 2035)4.7
CRFB, if made permanent5.5
10-year deficit effect — TCJA
$ trillions
JCT, dynamic1.07
JCT, conventional1.46
CBO, incl. interest1.9
Project 2025 implementation — competing trackers
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CPR / GFI — 532 proposals, method published53
Crowdsourced tracker — 317 objectives, no method48
Employment effect — steel & aluminum tariffs
jobs
Steel production jobs added1000
Steel-consuming mfg. jobs lost-75000
August 13, 2026 · Foreign policy & defense · action
US Navy leaves the Western Pacific without a carrier
98 of 100
No fixed date for restoring permanent Pacific carrier presence has been announced; USS Theodore Roosevelt's potential deployment is unconfirmed.
Layer 1 — Action
USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed since November 2025 and redirected toward the Middle East in January 2026 as the Iran war intensified, remained at sea past 250 days — including roughly 200 consecutive days without a port call — well beyond its original May 2026 return date. USS George Washington, the Navy's only forward-deployed carrier, based in Japan, was ordered to the Arabian Sea to relieve it, departing the Pacific in mid-August 2026.
USS Abraham Lincoln's deployment stretched past 250 days supporting the Iran war, and USS George Washington left its forward-deployed post in Japan to relieve it, leaving no US carrier stationed in the Western Pacific as of mid-August 2026.
Layer 2 —
Ongoing — no fixed date announced for restoring a permanent Pacific carrier
The Navy operates 11 aircraft carriers and typically deploys 2–3 at a time; none is currently stationed in the Western Pacific. USS Theodore Roosevelt, which took part in RIMPAC 2026 near Hawaii, has been reported as a candidate to restore Pacific coverage around September 2026, but nothing has been confirmed on the record.
Verified as of August 2026
All three security analysts quoted in contemporary reporting characterized the gap as a real reduction in Pacific presence, differing mainly in emphasis — messaging to regional allies versus general strategic distraction — rather than in whether it matters. No on-the-record administration rebuttal of that framing was found in available reporting.
Layer 3 — Measured effects
The Lincoln's extended deployment coincided with reports of crew distress aboard the ship.
Stars and Stripes reported crew distress aboard the Lincoln, including attempted suicides and quality-of-life concerns, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) raised concerns about supply shortages and mental-health deterioration; Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) said he would seek Pentagon reports on shipboard conditions.
Stars and Stripes; Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Rep. Marlin Stutzman
Journalistic verification
A US official disputed the characterization: "We have not observed an increase in suicidal ideations or attempts aboard the ship," and cited the Lincoln's onboard mental-health staffing — five chaplains, a clinical psychologist, a clinical social worker, three behavioral health technicians and an embedded prevention coordinator.
US official statement, via Stars and Stripes
Party to the action
What the gap signals about US commitment to the Indo-Pacific, alongside China and North Korea.
Greg Poling of CSIS said the administration frames the Pacific as its top priority "behind the Western Hemisphere," but "the U.S. is doing the exact opposite" in practice.
Greg Poling, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Academic and think-tank
Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute said regional partners including the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia are reading the gap as a signal that "the U.S. is not the big dog in the western Pacific anymore."
Bryan Clark, Hudson Institute
Academic and think-tank
Evan Sankey of the Cato Institute said carriers provide "psychological assurance to U.S. allies," and their absence "adds to the general sense that the U.S. is distracted by events in the Middle East."