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Analyses published in mid–late 2025 estimate that the Trump family has taken in billions while in the presidency — the New Yorker’s tally (reported elsewhere) and follow-ups put the figure around $3.4...
The Working Families Tax Cut Act (a name used for the 2025 package also called the “One Big Beautiful Bill” or WFTC) primarily preserves and extends large parts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA...
Two contrasting pictures emerge from the supplied sources: one study says in May 2024, while several policy analyses and advocacy reports indicate or over a 12‑month span . The discrepancy reflects di...
Legal experts, advocacy groups, and congressional Democrats say many of President Trump’s early actions have been unlawful or unconstitutional—courts have already blocked some orders and a judge calle...
Legal challenges, court orders, and policy analyses in 2025–2025 document numerous actions by President Donald Trump that critics and some courts describe as unlawful: federal judges ordered certain O...
Across the supplied analyses, the most consistent estimate is that roughly of the federal budget (and therefore about 13% of federal tax dollars) goes to national defense in recent years, though other...
The Working Families Tax Cut (also called the One Big Beautiful Bill or WFTC) keeps an expanded Child Tax Credit—capped at $2,000 per child with income phaseouts at $200,000 for single filers and $400...
Barack Obama’s two terms coincided with an increase in the U.S. national debt measured in dollars of roughly $7–9 trillion, depending on which dataset and start/end dates are used: several outlets cal...
About one-quarter to two-thirds of SNAP recipients are employed at some point during a year, and multiple analyses report large shares of program users who work full time, with specific estimates ofte...
For 2026, the Social Security Administration (SSA) set the Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) limit at $1,690 per month for non‑blind SSDI beneficiaries and $2,830 for statutorily blind beneficiaries;...
Multiple watchdogs, legal experts, advocacy groups and state officials say the Trump administration’s second-term actions have prompted numerous legal challenges and accusations that they have violate...
The only specific ACA credits identified in the sources as scheduled to change are the "enhanced" premium tax credits (ePTCs) — the post‑2020 expansions enacted by the American Rescue Plan and extende...
Republican 2025-era proposals from Project 2025, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) and other GOP plans do not offer the same federal guarantees for people with pre‑existing conditions that the Affo...
The claim that Black Americans constitute the majority of government assistance recipients is ; multiple analyses show that non-Hispanic White people are the largest single racial group among many maj...
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) resource limits for 2026 remain statutory and unchanged at $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 for a couple, a ceiling critics say is decades out of date; Social Sec...
For 2024 coverage, premium tax credit (PTC) eligibility generally begins at 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and—because Congress extended temporary enhancements for 2021–2025—taxpayers with in...
The FY2025 federal budget and related agency announcements commit roughly $3.2 billion to VA homeless programs for Oct. 1, 2024–Sept. 30, 2025, funding prevention, rapid rehousing, transitional housin...
Most analyses show a large share of federal revenues and spending goes to social programs: payroll taxes (largely Social Security and Medicare) make up roughly 37% of federal revenue and Social Securi...
The most recent official U.S. figure available in the provided reporting is the Census Bureau’s official poverty rate for 2024: 10.6 percent (the report is published as "Poverty in the United States: ...
President Trump used a mix of executive orders, agency rule changes, funding cuts and legal positions between 2017 and 2019 that critics say “sabotaged” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — including a Jan...