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President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly announced that he does not keep the official presidential salary and instead donates it to federal causes or agencies, often taking a nominal $1 paycheck, a pr...
Donald Trump repeatedly said and reported that he donated his presidential salary during his first term, with multiple outlets and federal agencies confirming donations to specific agencies and projec...
The claim that “illegals receiving benefits reserved for US citizens” is : federal law bars most undocumented immigrants from federal benefits, yet administrative changes, state programs, emergency ex...
150% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) is a straightforward multiple of the Health and Human Services poverty guideline used by many federal and state programs to set income eligibility; for 2025 tha...
Yes — historically SNAP (food stamp) benefits could be used to buy soda and most other cold, nonalcoholic beverages; USDA rules have allowed such purchases . That national baseline is changing: by 202...
The 43-day 2025 shutdown furloughed roughly 900,000 federal employees and forced about 2 million to work without pay, withholding nearly 3 million civilian paychecks worth an estimated $14 billion by ...
The primary 2025 funding vehicle was the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, which provided , including Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and other cabin...
Donald Trump has not been documented proposing any federal legislation to change the minimum marriage age; reporting indicates the issue has seen and most recent advocacy and legislative attention has...
Several U.S. presidents have declined to personally keep the full statutory presidential pay, but they have not all handled the proceeds the same way: John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover are repeatedly...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidy income limits are tied to the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), and those FPL-based thresholds are updated annually to reflect inflation through federal guideline revi...
Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to donate his presidential salary and publicly reported donations of parts of it to federal agencies and the White House Historical Association; contemporaneous rec...
Democrats are not demanding a single, one-line “additional amount” for health care in the current funding fight; their public demands range from extending expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium ta...
A narrow set of federal programs and program-specific guidance reference 150 percent of the HHS poverty guidelines for 2025; the clearest, explicit uses in the available federal reporting are the Low ...
Household size determines the federal poverty level (FPL) used to judge who is eligible for Premium Tax Credits (PTCs) in 2026; under current law, households qualify if their annual income is at least...
For 2025, the premium tax credit (PTC) is available to households with projected annual income at or above 100% of the federal poverty level and—because of temporary enhancements retained through 2025...
Reporting establishes that Palantir holds multiple federal contracts with agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), Immigration and Customs Enforceme...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sworn in as the 26th Secretary of Health and Human Services in February 2025, has used his authority to pursue sweeping policy and organizational changes that reflect his long-s...
A U.S. policy shift this year has already reclassified how some vaccines — particularly mRNA COVID-19 shots — are recommended: COVID-19 vaccines for 2025–2026 moved to “individual-based decision‑makin...
The Trump administration implemented a formal "zero tolerance" immigration policy in 2018 that intentionally prosecuted all adults crossing the border illegally, a decision known to cause as children ...
Minors found by police may end up under two very different federal regimes: custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an enforcement agency that makes detention and removal decisions, or c...