Overview
- Effective U.S. tariff rates have climbed to 18 percent, the highest level since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration and up sharply from roughly 2 percent a year ago.
- A 35 percent tariff on Canadian imports takes effect Friday under an executive order aimed at curbing illicit fentanyl flows from Canada.
- Net migration to the United States has plunged by at least 60 percent year-on-year and is projected to turn negative in 2025, a first in five decades.
- President Trump has issued 180 executive orders so far this year, outstripping every president since FDR at the same point in their terms.
- Enten’s analysis on CNN Newsroom frames these metrics as evidence that Trump’s second-term policies have reshaped the nation to a degree not seen since the 1930s.