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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...
Federal SNAP (food stamp) spending was about $100.3 billion in FY2024, serving roughly 41–42 million people at an average benefit near $187–$190 per person per month, or about $2,250 per person per ye...
If Congress allows the ARPA/IRA enhancements to lapse after 2025, the core premium tax credit (PTC) will remain but the expanded eligibility and larger subsidies will end — meaning subsidies would rev...
If Congress allows the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire at the end of 2025, independent analyses project a sharp rise in out‑of‑pocket premiums for marketplace enrollees, meaningful coverage...
Enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits dramatically lowered premiums for low- and moderate‑income enrollees through 2025 — the average subsidized enrollee paid $888 in annual premiums ...
Federal spending on ACA premium tax credits rose sharply after Congress passed COVID-era measures: the American Rescue Plan (ARPA) expanded and increased subsidies for plan years 2021–2022, and the In...
Congress faces a looming deadline: enhanced ACA premium tax credits that helped roughly 21–22 million enrollees are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025, and multiple bills and White House/Republica...
Dynamic scoring alters tariff revenue projections by folding macroeconomic feedback—growth effects, trade-volume responses, retaliation and higher interest costs—into estimates that conventional (stat...
Congressional proposals in 2026 to restore or replace the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits fall into three broad buckets: Democratic-led near-term extensions that would reinstate the enhanced credit...
Extending the enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) beyond their scheduled December 31, 2025 expiration would largely preserve the broadened eligibility and larger subsidies that characterized 2023–202...
If Congress extends the enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) past their current December 31, 2025, statutory expiration, the temporary changes that expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal pover...
Several high-profile federal tax credits are explicitly temporary and set to end December 31, 2025 — notably energy-efficiency and clean energy home credits created or enhanced by the Inflation Reduct...
Tariff receipts are treated like other federal “customs duties” and are deposited to the Treasury’s general receipts; they are not automatically or legally earmarked for a specific program unless Cong...
Customs duties (tariffs) are collected at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and remitted into the U.S. Treasury’s general fund; FY2025 collections surged to roughly $195 billion (...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) made Marketplace premium tax credits larger and available to more people for tax years 2021–2022, and those enhancements were extended through 2025 by later...
Unless Congress acts, the temporary ARPA/IRA enhancements to the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits (PTCs) expire at the end of 2025, returning subsidy rules to pre‑ARPA levels and eliminating ...
Projections for ACA subsidy costs beyond 2024 converge on a simple tradeoff: let the enhanced premium tax credits lapse at the end of 2025 and , or extend them and . Analyses in the record quantify bo...