President Trump suggested that federal investigators would coerce
reporters to tell the government who leaked the “low confidence”
preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that his strikes on Iran may only set the regime’s nuclear program back by a few months.
Trump
repeated his demand that the leaker be prosecuted and speculated that
Democrats may have been behind the report going public.
“They
could find out easily. And you go up and tell the reporter, ‘National
security, who gave it?’ You have to do that. And, I suspect will be
doing things like that,” Trump told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in a pre-taped interview.
Trump speaks on Fox News following the Iran strikes. FOX News
A
U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber returns after the U.S. attacked key
Iranian nuclear sites, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, U.S. June
22, 2025. via REUTERSThe president has been adamant that the strikes he ordered against three of Iran’s nuclear facilities “obliterated them.”
“They
did obliterate it, it turned out,” Trump complained. “We had to suffer
the fake news with the fake news of CNN and the New York Times, [which
were] saying, well, maybe it wasn’t as good as Trump said. Maybe it
wasn’t totally obliterated.”
“It turned out, no, it was
obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before. And that meant the end to
their nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time.”
CNN was the first to report on the DIA assessment, followed by the New York Times. Fox News also reported on the leaked intel.
The
extent of the damage done to Iran’s nuclear program remains somewhat
murky. CIA Director John Ratcliffe has echoed Trump’s claims, saying
that it “has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has similarly back up Trump’s claim.
The
Trump administration has also pointed to the Israel Atomic Energy
Commission, which found that the bombing of the Fordow facility
“destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the
enrichment facility inoperable.”
Last
week, the Trump administration briefed senators and House lawmakers
alike on the strikes. Republicans generally refrained from distancing
themselves from Trump’s language, though some, such as Sen. Rick Scott
(R-Fla.) suggested that it depends on what one’s definition of
“obliterated” is.
Meanwhile, prominent Democrats left those briefings unconvinced about the president’s use of the word “obliterated.”
“Right
now, we have no final battle damage assessment that would enable us to
be comfortable or complacent about what has been done,” Sen. Richard
Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said afterward the Senate briefing Thursday.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressing the nation. IRIB NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images
His colleague, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), more directly criticized Trump’s use of the word “obliterated.”
“What
President Trump told the country is that Iran’s nuclear capability was
obliterated. And it just was not obliterated.
In fact, the International
Atomic Energy Commission just confirmed that we only set back their
program by a handful of months,” Murphy told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on
Sunday.
International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) director
general Rafael Mariano Grossi suggested that Iran could get its nuclear
program back up in running within months.
“They can have, you
know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges
spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that,” Grossi told
CBS’ “Face the Nation” in a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday.
Iranian
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s social media account rejected
Trump’s characterization of the damage done as well.
“The President of the United States, in describing what happened, exaggerated unusually, which turned out to be necessary for that exaggeration,” Khamenei’s
account wrote on X.
“Anyone who heard those words understood that beneath their surface, another truth existed. They couldn’t do anything and exaggerated to cover up and conceal th
SPOILER ALERT: Real gross domestic product
decreased in 39 states in the first quarter of 2025, with the percent
change ranging from 1.7 percent at an annual rate in South Carolina to
–6.1 percent in Iowa and Nebraska, according to statistics released
today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (table 1).
BEA News: Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 1st Quarter 2025
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today:
Real
gross domestic product decreased in 39 states in the first quarter of
2025, with the percent change ranging from 1.7 percent at an annual rate
in South Carolina to –6.1 percent in Iowa and Nebraska.
Personal
income, in current dollars, increased in all 50 states and the District
of Columbia in the first quarter of 2025, with the percent change
ranging from 12.7 percent at an annual rate in North Dakota to 3.2
percent in Washington state.
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Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 1st Quarter 2025
Real gross domestic product
decreased in 39 states in the first quarter of 2025, with the percent
change ranging from 1.7 percent at an annual rate in South Carolina to
–6.1 percent in Iowa and Nebraska, according to statistics released
today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (table 1).
Current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP)
increased in 47 states and the District of Columbia, with the percent
change ranging from 8.7 percent at an annual rate in North Dakota to
–2.7 percent in Iowa.
Personal income, in current dollars, increased in
all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2025,
with the percent change ranging from 12.7 percent at an annual rate in
North Dakota to 3.2 percent in Washington state (table 3).
Real GDP
In the first quarter of 2025, real GDP for the nation decreased at an
annual rate of 0.5 percent. Real GDP decreased in 16 of the 23 industry
groups for which BEA prepares quarterly state estimates. Finance and
insurance; agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting; and wholesale
trade were the leading contributors to the decrease in real GDP
nationally (table 2).
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting, which decreased in
39 states, was the leading contributor to the decreases in 11 states,
including Nebraska, Iowa, Montana, and Kansas.
Mining, which decreased in 43 states, was the leading contributor
to the decreases in eight states, including Wyoming, the state with the
fifth-largest decline in real GDP.
Finance and insurance, which decreased in all 50 states and the
District of Columbia, was the leading contributor to decreases in 18
states.
Real estate and rental and leasing, which increased in all 50
states and the District of Columbia, was the leading contributor to
growth in South Carolina, the state with the largest increase in real
GDP.
Personal income
In the first quarter of 2025, current-dollar personal income
increased $407.3 billion, or 6.7 percent at an annual rate (table 3).
Nationally, increases in earnings, transfer receipts, and property
income (dividends, interest, and rent) contributed to the increase in
personal income (chart 1).
Earnings increased in all 50 states and the District
of Columbia, while growing 5.0 percent nationally (table 4). The
percent change in earnings ranged from 13.5 percent in North Dakota to
0.1 percent in Washington state. Earnings increased in 22 of the 24
industries for which BEA prepares quarterly state estimates and was the
largest contributor to growth in personal income in 28 states (table 5).
Farm earnings was the leading contributor to increases in North
Dakota, South Dakota, and Mississippi, the states with the three largest
increases in personal income, due in part to government payments from
the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program.
In South Carolina, the state with the fourth-largest increase in
personal income, construction was the leading contributor to the
increase in earnings.
In Oklahoma, the state with the fifth-largest increase in personal
income, mining was the leading contributor to the increase in earnings.
Transfer receipts increased in all 50 states
and the District of Columbia, while growing 13.6 percent nationally. The
percent change in transfer receipts ranged from 21.2 percent in Nevada
to 9.1 percent in Florida (table 4). The increase in transfer receipts
was due in part to an increase in Affordable Care Act premium tax
credits and an annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security
benefits.
Property income increased in all 50 states and the
District of Columbia, while growing 5.6 percent nationally. The percent
change ranged from 7.8 percent in Idaho to 3.8 percent in Alaska (table
4).
Update of state statistics
Today, BEA also released revised quarterly estimates of personal
income by state for the first through fourth quarters of 2024. This
update incorporates new and revised source data that are more complete
and more detailed than previously available and aligns the states with
the national estimates from the National Income and Product Accounts
released on June 26, 2025.
New combined state news release
On September 26, 2025, BEA will publish quarterly GDP and personal
income by state along with annual personal consumption expenditures by
state in a single news release.
This combined release will provide a
fuller picture of the economies of all states and the District of
Columbia and will replace the publication of two separate releases
issued on different days.
BEA will release revised annual state GDP and
personal income estimates for 2020 to 2024, along with revised quarterly
estimates for the first quarter of 2020 through the first quarter of
2025 and preliminary estimates for the second quarter of 2025.
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September 26, 2025 release of GDP, personal income, and personal
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