What you voted for in 2024
What you voted for in 2024 tracks the trend of key indicators in the wake of the 2024 US Presidential Election that was won by the Republican candidate, Donald Trump. Trump made sweeping claims about the economy, crime, and immigration that were not supported by the data. This site tracks those claims against the actual data to see if they hold up.
Update: June 2025: As this presidental administration has progressed the claims of the administration do not always align with the available data. Based on the track record of President Trump and the behavior of his cabinet members I can’t put my full faith in this data. I’ll be looking for better sources of data that are free to use and free from bias but until then I will continue to publish this data as is and try to highlight issues with the data should they arise.
Just how these policies are affecting Americans is no longer clear, though. Matt Grossman of the Wall Street Journal reported today that economists no longer trust the accuracy of the government’s inflation data. Officials from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles a huge monthly survey of employment and costs, told economists that staffing shortages and a hiring freeze have forced them to cut back on their research and use less precise methods for figuring out price changes. Grossman reports that the bureau has also cut back on the number of places where it collects data and that the administration has gotten rid of committees of external experts that worked to improve government statistics.
– Heather Cox Richardson, June 4, 2025