Trump administration’s economic chaos has drained roughly $100B from the US economy since inauguration

The cost of policy unpredictability has a price tag, and it’s a big one. Various estimates peg the cumulative economic damage from the Trump administration’s actions since January 2025 at around $100 billion, a figure that reflects the compounding toll of tariff escalations, federal spending shifts, and decision-making volatility. The $100B question: where the number comes from The $100 billion figure isn’t drawn from a single government report or academic paper. It’s an aggregation of costs spread across multiple channels, including higher consumer prices from tariffs, disrupted supply chains, reduced business investment due to policy uncertainty, and the downstream effects of abrupt federal workforce and spending changes. Partisan trackers and independent analysts have produced a range of estimates for the total economic impact. Those figures span from roughly $72 billion on the conservative end to over $165 billion by mid-2026 on the higher end, depending on which costs you include and how far forward you project. On the household level, tariffs alone are estimated to have raised costs by about $1,000 per household in 2025. Multiply that across more than 130 million US household...