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The United States’s pricing income is overvoltages under Trump, out of the total 2024

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President Donald Trump Long presented prices as a key source of government income, and in just a few months after their implementation, billions of dollars have already circulated in federal chests.

The United States has received more than $ 29 billion in pricing in July, the highest monthly total of this year. According to the latest data from the “Dustanes and certain Treasury Department, published on August 19, total tariff income reached $ 158.3 billion for the financial year.

Bessent says that pricing income could help repay the country’s 37.2 t.

The revelation comes in the heels of Trump’s sweeping price On imported goods – rights paid by American companies to the federal government, but has often transmitted to consumers by higher prices.

Graph comparing daily pricing income 2024 and 2025

A graph comparing the daily pricing income of 2024 and 2025 using the Penn Wharton budgetary model based on data from the Treasury Ministry. NUMBERS not adjusted for inflation. (Penn Wharton budgetary model)

Price income regularly increased from around $ 17.4 billion in April to 23.9 billion dollars in May before climbing $ 28 billion in June and culminating $ 29.6 billion in July. At the current rate, the United States could receive as much pricing income in just four to five months as for the whole year.

Trump calls prices.

Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he was planning to revise the estimate of this year’s pricing income above the previous projection of $ 300 billion. Although he did not offer new forecasts, he stressed that the total would be “significantly” higher.

Graph comparing daily pricing income 2024 and 2025

A graph comparing the daily pricing income of 2024 and 2025 using the Penn Wharton budgetary model based on data from the Treasury Ministry. NUMBERS not adjusted for inflation. (Penn Wharton budgetary model)

Bessent also said that the White House was considering the possibility of using some of the pricing income to approach the country’s growing debt, adding a CNBC interview that he and Trump are “focused on laser to repay the debt”.

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The debt of the nation, which is the amount of money that the United States owes to its creditors, approach 37.2 Billion of dollars As of August 20, according to the Treasury Department. The amazing figure has intensified the longtime debate in Washington on public spending, taxation and efforts to slow down the hot air balloon deficit.

“I think we are going to lower the deficit to the GDP, we will start to repay the debt, then to a point which can be used as compensation for the American people,” he said about pricing income.

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