The United States reached the lowest poverty rate in the history of that data being recorded.
Posted by Speaker Mike Johnson, Checked
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Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnsonNov 11, 2026The official U.S. poverty rate of 10.2% in 2025 is the lowest since the Census Bureau began recording it in 1959, so the claim holds on the standard official measure.
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… We brought in, you know, we brought back peace through strength and American energy dominance. We secured the border tight, all the big issues in 2024. We checked the boxes. We added 1 million private sector jobs in the economy. We Brought about the lowest poverty rate in the history of that data being recorded. We have the safest American streets, the lowest violent crime rate we've had in 126 years. The most secure border in I think a half century. We have Trump accounts for newborns. We have reassuring of manufacturing for the US Made in the USA is a thing again. …
Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnson · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The Census Bureau's September 2026 report states the official poverty rate fell to 10.2% in 2025, a historic low for the series, with children's poverty at a record-low 13.4%.[5][6]
Supports. Reuters reports the U.S. poverty rate dipped to the lowest on record in 2025, the lowest level since the Census Bureau began tracking the measure.[1]
Supports. Snopes rates Trump's claim as true under the official poverty measure, and the Charlotte Observer fact-check calls the poverty claim technically true but needing context.[2][8]
Context. The supplemental poverty measure was 13.1% in 2025, not statistically different from 2024 and not an all-time low (its record low was 7.7% in 2021), so the record holds only for the official measure.[3][4][7]
Context. The post says 'that data being recorded' without naming a measure; the official measure is the one the Census Bureau and major outlets report as the record-low series, which is the reading the sources support.[4][5]
Sources
8 sources: 4 fact-checkers, 3 primary, 1 not rated
- 1US poverty rate dips to lowest on record, Census Bureau saysreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Is official US poverty rate at all-time historical low, as Trump claimed?snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Trump's Numbers, October 2026 Update - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Trump claims US poverty is its lowest in history, missing ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 5Poverty in the United States: 2025 - https: // www2 . census . gov.www2.census.gov · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 6Poverty in the United States: 2025census.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 7Poverty in 2025congress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 8Fact Check: Here's what Trump got – mostly – right in Kansas rally for Sen. Marshallcharlotteobserver.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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