DJT promised his supporters that foreign countries would pay the tariffs, but in fact, studies have reinforced what economists maintained: the cost of tariffs falls on businesses and consumers in the U.S. Trump promised his tariffs would make the economy boom and bring back manufacturing jobs, but the latest report on U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter of last year, released just this morning, shows that tariffs and the government shutdown slowed growth to 1.4%, bringing overall growth down from 2.8% in 2024 to 2.2% in 2025. U.S. added 1.46 million jobs in 24 Only 108,000 25. MAGA