Tracking Trump's promises and key metrics for America.

Isaac Saul : Measuring the success of a presidency is difficult.

He and his staff have decided to lay out a series of reference points for both the incoming administration and the country as President Trump heads into office.

We’ve broken the benchmarks into three broad groups: traditional economic metrics presidents are judged by.

The state of our national security abroad, the safety of the American people at home, and the strength of our domestic institutions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ closed at 43,153 on January 16, 2025 .

The yield on the 10-Year Treasury Note was 4.61% .

All of these indices are all up over the last year .

The Fed ’s interest rate is currently 4.25%4.50% , and it cut interest rates three times in 2024 .

The total national debt was $35.46 trillion in fiscal year 2024 .

The national deficit was $710.94 billion as of October 2024 .