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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...
Since 2016 reporting and official statistics show a marked rise in in recent years, driven mainly by renewed and a dramatic expansion of the overall population in 2024–2026; however, the provided sour...
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...
The was revised in January 2026 to recommend universal vaccination against 11 diseases for all children, down from recommendations covering roughly 17 diseases under the previous federal schedule, wit...
The claim that “’s homeland security found 129,143 children” is grounded in repeated statements and official DHS messaging that the and located more than 129,143 unaccompanied migrant children in 2025...
The full text of , titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” was signed July 24, 2025 and published by and in ; the Presidential Document runs across multiple official repositories incl...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
and point to internal guidance and detention standards that instruct officers to prioritize during enforcement actions, offer parents choices about remaining with their children or designating a careg...
Federal statutes, agency directives and constitutional protections form the spine of legal safeguards for children during ICE actions: the Homeland Security Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection ...
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 ...