According to a new Newsweek analysis using artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump’s first six months of his second term have been the most “successful” of any U.S. president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. The AI model evaluated legislative accomplishments relative to each president’s level of congressional support.

Trump, re-elected in 2024, entered office with a GOP-controlled Congress and a conservative Supreme Court. His major legislative win was the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed on July 4, which extended his 2017 tax cuts, raised military and border funding, cut welfare spending, and raised the debt ceiling. The Congressional Budget Office estimates it will add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over a decade.

On January 29, Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, named after a Georgia college student murdered by an undocumented immigrant. The law mandates detention without bond for noncitizens charged with felonies and allows states to sue the Department of Homeland Security over lax immigration enforcement.

The AI model, using ChatGPT, rated Trump’s accomplishments as “very high,” surpassing all presidents since FDR’s historic 1933 start. Biden’s first term ranked third, highlighted by the American Rescue Plan and COVID-related legislation.

However, experts caution that Trump’s legislative success stems largely from unified partisan support. “Not every president has had such a one-dimensional party backing,” said Dafydd Townley, a U.K.-based American politics expert. By contrast, leaders like Reagan and Nixon secured bipartisan victories even with divided Congresses, showing broader political skill.