“My tariffs … are helping to slash the deficit this year by more than 25%.”
What PolitiFact found
President Donald Trump has not reduced the federal deficit by 25%. The deficit for fiscal year 2025, which ended Sept. 30, was 2.3% smaller than the fiscal year 2024 deficit. Considering only the portions of fiscal year 2025 when Trump was president, the deficit was higher on Trump’s watch than during the comparable months in 2024 under President Joe Biden.
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In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 12 November 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 November 2025, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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