The record, tracked in data

Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, all items, change over the prior 12 months.

Grocery-store (food-at-home) prices vs a year earlier, seasonally adjusted. Oct 2025 is missing at the source (never published due to the government shutdown).

US average regular gasoline, per gallon

Quarter-on-quarter growth of inflation-adjusted GDP, annualized. Estimates are revised; 2025 quarters were whipsawed by tariff-driven import swings.

Unemployment rate (U-3), seasonally adjusted.

Median usual weekly earnings, full-time workers, in constant (1982-84) dollars — pay adjusted for inflation. Q4 2025 is missing at the source (shutdown).

All federal civilian employees incl. the Postal Service, from the monthly jobs report. Staff on paid deferred resignation counted as employed until they left payrolls (visible as the Oct 2025 drop).

Customs duties collected this fiscal year (resets each October). Gross collections; net of refunds $163B. Courts ordered large tariff refunds in 2026, so both are shown — either alone misleads.

Gross customs duties collected as a share of goods imports that month — the average tariff actually paid at the border. Computed transparently from two official series; shifts in the import mix move it as well as policy.

Monthly U.S. international trade deficit in goods and services.

Total public debt outstanding

Cumulative federal budget deficit so far this fiscal year (resets each October).

Cumulative interest paid on all federal debt this fiscal year (resets each October). Includes intragovernmental holdings; single months are lumpy.

Monthly Southwest land border encounters. Counts events, not unique people; composition shifts at the May 2023 Title 42 → Title 8 change.

Removals recorded in ICE's published statistics workbook, FY2026 to date. Official workbook figure — not comparable to press-release 'deportation' totals, which mix in CBP actions. Includes 36,548 with a family-unit identifier.

National average daily population in ICE detention, fiscal-YTD (FY2026), summed across 208 facilities and cross-checked against the workbook's second split. An average, not a point-in-time headcount.

Provisional CDC estimate (completeness-adjusted) of overdose deaths in the 12 months ending this month; reported ~5 months behind and revised.

Confirmed cases reported to CDC, year to date, dated by CDC's own 'as of' line.

Total people enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP, summed from state reports to CMS (~4-month lag; states revise).

Since inauguration · Jan 20, 2025

Lifetime (Article III) judges confirmed this term, counted by Senate confirmation date from the FJC's directory of every federal judge since 1789.

Simple average of 2 national polls (one per pollster, last ~2 weeks). Opinion data, not a government statistic — the board's one survey-derived metric.