Washington, DC…Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2026 (January, February, and March), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 0.5 percent.
The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the first quarter were investment, exports, consumer spending, and government spending. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, also increased. For more information, refer to the “Technical Notes” below.
Compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, the acceleration in real GDP in the first quarter of 2026 reflected upturns in government spending and exports, and an acceleration in investment that were partly offset by a deceleration in consumer spending. Imports turned up.
Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, the sum of consumer spending and gross private fixed investment, increased 2.5 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter.
The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 3.6 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 3.7 percent in the fourth quarter. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index increased 4.5 percent, compared with an increase of 2.9 percent, and the PCE price index excluding food and energy increased 4.3 percent, compared with an increase of 2.7 percent.
| Real GDP and Related Measures [Percent change (SAAR) from 2025:Q4 to 2026:Q1] |
|
|---|---|
| Advance Estimate | |
| Real GDP | 2.0 |
| Current-dollar GDP | 5.6 |
| Real final sales to private domestic purchasers | 2.5 |
| Gross domestic purchases price index | 3.6 |
| PCE price index | 4.5 |
| PCE price index excluding food and energy | 4.3 |
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The unemployment data from the maga labor dept are BS.
The stock market also is a fraud, as the inflation, and projection of higher inflation due to the illegal Iran war-not a war according to maga mike.
The projections by economists for the economy for the next 6 months is dismal.
As long as maga don keeps the world hostage with his Epstein distraction everyone will have economic distress .
This elective illegal war is killing people with the loss of transportation, food security, especially the poorer countries.
EAT ME!
Hello I’m a MAGA follower from Calaveras County.
I am so glad Prez Trump is going back on his promise to have his wonderful gold plated ballroom paid for by all donations and instead is going to try to have you, me, EVERYONE who pays taxes, fund it.
I will gladly fall in line like the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, lower income sheep that comprise his faithful base. We will do anything he says blindly and without hesitation. We love little Mike Johnson, Lady Lindsey Graham, Scott “backdoor daddy” Bessent, and all of the clowns that makeup our leaders inner circle.
I don’t need the little money I have left over from my take home pay for maybe personal use. I will gladly give it all to our leader Fuhrer Trump, and I hope that the rest of you will gladly give up YOUR hard earned money that he needs to construct the much needed gold ballroom that would never be seen by 99.99999999% of the American Public.
Come on, do your part, give Don the money he so richly deserves.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
A dumb Trumpster
Trump answers questions about high gasoline prices. Gets nasty and says they will go down soon. Drink up the Fake News ….
Did the Border Zar ever give back the fifty thousand in a CAVA bag ? Do you need to pay taxes on dirty money ?
Did you know people have been asking for A GOLDEN BALLROOM for one hundred years …
What did you get for paying astronomical gasoline prices. IRAN doesn’t have a nuclear weapon. That they actually didn’t have. MAGA winning is exhausting
Braking News… Mexico paying for Golden Ballroom. Just like the Wall…
Oh Realllllllllllly!
Trump fired any legitimate analyst that had to do with the economy. Drink in the lies and kool aid morons
Oh Really!
Yes he did Gomer.
Dementia don’s Iran Epstein distraction is now at
– 61% approval.
The economy -70%
Taco don – stop the violence, he bombed 5 countries.
He still wants the Nobel Peace prize.
A Kim Jung Un style Gold Statue of jealous don at his Doral golf club.
What a sicko.
How about that Easter Bunny for President. Much more intelligent than anything in the trump administration
That’s Joe Biden in the Easter Bunny Suit.
I believe it was Jeffery Epstein …