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The national debt rose from roughly $36.2 trillion when President Trump began his second term on Jan. 20, 2025, to at least $38 trillion by Oct. 23, 2025 — an increase in the neighborhood of $1.8 tril...
The temporary “enhanced” Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits — the ARPA/IRA-era increases that expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and reduced required househo...
Estimates for the fiscal “cost” of illegal immigration in 2024 diverge sharply because analysts measure different things (gross spending, net cost after taxes, federal vs. state/local impacts, and sho...
Available sources show the U.S. gross national debt rose from roughly $36.22 trillion when President Trump began his second term on Jan. 20, 2025, to about $38 trillion by Oct. 23, 2025—an increase of...
Enhanced Affordable Care Act premium subsidies enacted during the pandemic — the larger premium tax credits that expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level and lowered required house...
Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for federally funded full health coverage (Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare) and cannot get Marketplace subsidies; federal “Emergency Medicaid” reimburses only...
President Trump’s first year in office saw the federal deficit for fiscal year (FY) 2025 come in around $1.8 trillion — roughly $41 billion smaller than FY2024 according to Treasury and CBO-era report...
Donald Trump’s presidency is credited in the provided materials with ; these claims are advanced most strongly by administration-aligned accounts and sympathetic organizations . Opposing or more measu...
Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, the headline national debt rose by roughly $1.7–2.2 trillion in fiscal 2025 and reached about $38 trillion by late October 2025 according to mult...
Democrats did not arbitrarily "set" ACA enhanced subsidies to end in 2025; the subsidies were created as temporary, pandemic-era enhancements in the American Rescue Plan and codified with a sunset in ...
The national debt rose substantially during President Biden’s term: headline Treasury-style totals commonly cited put gross federal debt from about $27.8 trillion at inauguration (Jan 20, 2021) to rou...
The temporary, premium tax credits that raised subsidies and expanded eligibility under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 and were later carried forward by the Inflation Reduction Act were w...
Donald Trump’s first presidential term (2017–2020) coincided with historically low inflation averaging about 1.9%–2.5% depending on the calculation; after he left office inflation surged in 2021–2022 ...
A government shutdown produces measurable short-term economic harm that can raise the national debt modestly through lost output and additional borrowing costs, while its effect on the sovereign credi...
Public data from the sources provided show in reported deportation counts since President Trump took office in 2025: independent trackers report tens of thousands of formal removals while policy model...
The enhanced ACA premium tax credits created by pandemic-era laws are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 unless Congress acts, which would revert subsidies to the original 100–400% of FPL structur...
Estimates for implementing universal health care in the United States vary widely depending on the model: extending coverage under the existing multi‑payer system was estimated to raise the national h...
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...
Treasury and budget agencies show the U.S. total federal debt was roughly $36.1 trillion when the debt ceiling was reinstated on January 2, 2025 (the statutory limit matched outstanding debt at that t...
The U.S. federal debt rose by roughly $2.2 trillion in fiscal year (FY) 2025, bringing total gross federal debt to about $37.6 trillion at the end of FY2025 and pushing debt-to-GDP above 120% in mid‑2...