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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it collected “more than $200 billion” in tariffs this calendar year as of Dec. 15, 2025 . Independent trackers and budget analysts show a range of estimat...
Undocumented immigrants do pay taxes in multiple ways and recent estimates place their combined federal, state, and local tax contributions near $100 billion for 2022, though alternate methodologies y...
Yes — in 2025 Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration enacted and implemented a tax package that independent and mainstream reporters and analysts estimate will reduce federal revenue by ...
Tariffs have nudged some reshoring and supply‑chain reorientation but chiefly pushed firms to diversify beyond China — not mass “return to America.” The Richmond Fed and Budget Lab note past tariffs h...
Tariff collections under the Trump administration surged in fiscal 2025 to roughly $195 billion in customs duties for that single year and other reporting places the total tariff take since he took of...
Tariffs brought the federal government roughly $77 billion in FY2024 and exploded to roughly $165–195 billion in FY2025 under new policies, meaning tariffs accounted for only a small single‑digit shar...
Undocumented immigrants’ tax contributions are substantial but reported figures vary because studies measure different tax types (federal income, payroll, state and local, or combined household totals...
Major, recent analyses converge on the conclusion that a substantial share of unauthorized immigrants in the United States pay taxes, though estimates of the exact vary and are indirect. Contemporary ...
Refundable credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) increase federal outlays when they exceed taxpayers’ liability because the government pays the excess as r...
Economists estimate taxes paid by unauthorized (undocumented) workers by combining demographic and tax data, applying behavioral assumptions like the share who file or have payroll taxes withheld (com...
Tariffs raise the prices of imported goods and inputs and — depending on exemptions, corporate behavior, and pass‑through rates — much of that cost can fall on consumers; recent estimates put househol...
The statement that the Big Beautiful Bill 2025 “varies middle-class definition by household size” is supported by the Congressional Budget Office’s distributional approach used in analyses of the bill...
Nonpartisan analyses of the “Big Beautiful Bill” agree the legislation shifts resources upward: , while lower-income households face net losses through cuts to in-kind programs. The Congressional Budg...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is projected to raise U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, reduce clean electricity generation, and increase federal debt, producing second-order environmental risks throug...