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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...
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...
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...
The simplest, widely used accounting is that the gross federal debt rose by about $7.8 trillion during Donald Trump’s first term — from roughly $19.95 trillion the day before his inauguration to about...
Biden’s “COVID-era” expansion of ACA premium tax credits — the enhanced subsidies created in 2021 and extended through 2025 — increased federal spending on marketplace subsidies to an estimated $138 b...
The U.S. collected roughly $165–195 billion in tariff (customs duties) revenue in fiscal year 2025, with year‑to‑date calendar‑year or partial‑year tallies varying by source and cutoffs: Treasury and ...
Multiple reputable trackers and government releases report very large—but not identical—tariff receipts for 2025, with headline figures clustered roughly between $179 billion and $236 billion dependin...
Donald Trump’s 2024–25 public positions and administration actions focused heavily on reshaping Medicare through Medicare Advantage policy shifts, drug-pricing reversals and negotiation activity, and ...
Tariffs enacted in 2025 produced meaningful new revenue that narrowed projected deficits by trillions over the coming decade, but they did not — and in 2025 could not plausibly have — meaningfully pay...
If Congress takes no further action, the enhanced ACA premium tax credits enacted under the American Rescue Plan and extended by the Inflation Reduction Act will expire Dec. 31, 2025, and 2026 subsidy...
Premium tax credits (ACA subsidies) are calculated from your household’s ACA-specific modified adjusted gross income (MAGI), the federal poverty level (FPL) for your household size, and the local cost...
Policymakers’ 2025 decisions — chiefly the July 4, 2025 budget reconciliation law often called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA or H.R.1) — changed federal health financing and raised deficit pro...
Customs duties (tariffs) are collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and deposited into the U.S. Treasury; Treasury statements record these receipts under categories tied to the Department of ...
Tariff receipts surged in FY2025 and have been booked as general federal revenue, materially reducing projected deficits in budget baselines—but much of that windfall is legally and politically contes...
Federal premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans are overwhelmingly a federal expense: enhanced ACA subsidies cost roughly $92 billion in 2023 and are estimated at $138 billion in...
If your income changes during the plan year you must report it to the Marketplace so your advance premium tax credit (APTC) can be recalculated; you may change your reported income unlimited times and...
Available reporting shows wide, sometimes inconsistent measures of how much tariff revenue the U.S. has taken in so far in 2025: several data-driven trackers and budget analysts put fiscal-year 2025 c...
Multiple 2025–2026 proposals would alter how ACA (Obamacare) subsidies, eligibility, and state programs operate in 2026: Republicans in Congress and some Senate proposals seek to replace or repeal maj...
For coverage year 2025, eligibility for Affordable Care Act premium tax credits (subsidies) is calculated using the 2024 federal poverty guidelines and enhanced subsidy rules enacted by the American R...
Federal budget deficits fell sharply from a pandemic peak in FY2021 ($2.78 trillion) to lower—but still large—levels in FY2022 and FY2023, with multiple organizations linking much of that decline to t...