More than 65 million People Watched “Just the Facts with Steve Ballmer” Before Heading to the Polls

Posted on February 27th, 2025 | Filed under Press Releases

USAFacts Returns with More Data-Driven Insights in 2025

BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — USAFacts, a not-for-profit, nonpartisan civic organization founded by former Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, is today launching its newest installment of Just the Facts. The series covers the most pressing issues on the minds of Americans including federal spending, tariffs, oil production and the federal budget, a focus of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

USAFacts’ mission is to provide Americans with source data directly from the government, empowering the people to make up their own mind.

More than 65 million people tuned in last year for the six-part series, “Just the Facts with Steve Ballmer,” presented by USAFacts. The 2024 series focused on 6 key voter issues: immigration, the federal budget, the economy, energy and the environment, health and healthcare and America by the Numbers.

The series contributed to nearly 16M usafacts.org website visits, a 101% increase from the previous year. USAFacts’ YouTube viewer base saw an exponential increase, welcoming 125K new subscribers in 2024, with the highest daily traffic occurring on Election Day, November 5^th.

“When I launched USAFacts back in 2017, I was trying to understand what the government was funding while working on our philanthropic giving,” said Steve Ballmer. “As our analysts began collecting government spending data across agencies and jurisdictions, I knew I wasn’t the only one who wanted to make sense of how this country operates from a numbers perspective.”

In 2025, USAFacts earned the highest reliability rating and lowest bias score on the Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart, which rates media on reliability and partisanship and scores media companies by their trustworthiness.

“Every day our team is hard at work distilling and analyzing government data in a way that contextualizes key issues, curiosities and concerns for the American people,” said USAFacts President, Poppy MacDonald. “Our fact-based, nonpartisan content is consistently ranked as a trusted resource for Americans looking to understand and remain informed on the important issues.”

New episodes of “Just the Facts with Steve Ballmer” will be available on the USAFacts YouTube channel.