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Available federal and independent reporting shows that only a minority of undocumented (commonly termed “illegal”) immigrants have criminal convictions: counts of people in ICE detention indicate roug...
The Constitution and federal employment rules set different rules: the U.S. Constitution prescribes citizenship or age/residency requirements for federal elected offices, while federal agencies genera...
The most direct, agency-published figure for ICE’s annual budget is the FY2026 request of $11.3 billion, while recent enacted and reported totals range roughly from $8.7–$9.0 billion for FY2024; separ...
Ilhan Omar’s reported household net worth appears in public filings as a broad range: between $6 million and $30 million at the end of 2024, with news coverage in 2025 highlighting the upper-end figur...
Estimates of how many Somali-born people and people of Somali ancestry live in the United States vary widely in available reporting: census-derived figures and public estimates put Somali ancestry or ...
For the 2025 coverage year, people must generally have household income at or above 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL) to qualify for the ACA premium tax credit; the temporary expansion that remo...
Donald Trump repeatedly proposed in 2024 and pressed the idea through 2025 that tariff revenue could be used to eliminate or sharply reduce federal income taxes and that the Internal Revenue Service c...
Seven states had no Republican members in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 2024 elections: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Rhode Island. Thi...
Donald Trump is not formally "allowed" to break the law, but a mix of recent legal doctrines, prosecutorial choices, and political dynamics explains why enforcement has been uneven. are the Supreme Co...
The available evidence shows that unauthorized immigrants have obtained and used Social Security numbers, most commonly by using , and that federal agencies and advocates report both confirmed enforce...
The most complete, dated count in the provided materials lists the 119th Congress as having , and ; that snapshot is reported by the Congressional Research Service on August 4, 2025. A contemporaneous...
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. Constitution requires that Representatives be U.S. citizens for at least seven years and Senators for at least nine years before taking office, so current law bars someone who is not a U.S. c...
Current reporting and legislative proposals show both that some past or former members of Congress have held foreign citizenship and that Congress does not maintain an official roster of dual citizens...
The Constitution says the Senate may convict an impeached federal officer only with the concurrence of two‑thirds of senators present; conviction “operates automatically and instantaneously to separat...
The analyses show disagreement about whether ICE is behaving differently now compared with the Obama years: official ICE reporting emphasizes continuing law‑enforcement and intelligence missions, whil...
For tax year 2025, the official standard deduction amounts are raised substantially: Single—$15,000; Married Filing Jointly—$30,000; Head of Household—$22,500 (IRS Publication 505) . Itemized deductio...
There are about 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens residing in the United States as of 2024, which Congress Research Service reports as “approximately 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens” and that ...
Federal law does not impose a single, broad duty on U.S. citizens to show identification to law enforcement in every encounter; instead, identification obligations arise in limited settings (for examp...
The U.S. military has publicly developed and tested several categories of (DEWs)—notably (HELs), s/radio frequency systems (HPM/HPRF), and acoustic/non-lethal sound systems—primarily for counter-drone...