If you add up all of President Trump's plans for the tens of billions in tariff revenue the U.S. is collecting, the bucket of money has already dried up — and then some.

Why it matters: For the first time in decades, America is bringing in meaningful tariff revenue that could improve the nation's fiscal outlook, a bright spot from the administration's trade policy. • But Trump has promised debt reduction, deficit reduction, $2,000 dividend checks and farm bailouts with the money, among other things. All of it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, more in total than is on track to be collected.

The big picture: Trump is relying on the money as a source of relief amid an affordability crisis that pinched Republicans in elections earlier this month. • Failure to

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