evidence: Under Trump, the rate seemed to stabilize and even ticked upward, reaching a high of 63.3% from October 2019 to February 2020. But, by the time he left office, the rate had dropped to 61.3% — falling another 1.5 percentage points under Trump after going down 2.9 points during the Obama years. [...] Overall, since 2016, the year before Trump took office, the poverty rate dropped by 1.3 percentage points, and the number of people in poverty went down by 3.4 million. [...] Under Trump, the overall supplemental poverty rate fell nearly 5 percentage points, from 14% in 2016 to a record low 9.1%, and the number of people in poverty fell by nearly 15 million.