In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump said his tariffs are “saving our country.” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, delivering the Democratic response, said the opposite. “Since this president took office last year, his reckless trade policies have forced American families to pay more than $1,700 each in tariff costs,” Spanberger said Feb. 24. We’ve fact-checked other Democrats ’ estimates about how much Trump’s tariffs are costing American families. Spanberger’s $1,700 figure is roughly in line with multiple estimates by groups that study the tariffs’ effect. These groups, which represent diverse political ideologies, used different metrics to calculate the tariffs’ cost to American households. The Supreme Court recently ruled that Trump cannot use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs on his own, as he had been doing. Trump reinstated a global 15% tariff after the decision, using other laws.…