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2025 United States budget reconciliation law
Yes — beginning with the 2025 tax year, most taxpayers who do not itemize will not be able to deduct charitable gifts on Schedule A, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) creates a new above‑the‑...
Since January 20, 2025, federal agencies have resumed and expanded border-barrier activity: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report that more than...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking process has proposed a much narrower internal definition of “professional degree” for the 2025–2026 list update that would recognize roughly 11 prim...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking proposal and related guidance drastically narrowed which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” removing many health, education and othe...
Major residential clean-energy credits created or expanded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are being accelerated toward termination in 2026: homeowner-facing credits like the Residential Clean En...
The headline tax-law shifts that matter for charitable giving stem from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA): it creates an above‑the‑line charitable deduction for many non‑itemizers beginning in ta...
The core factual claim is that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (often called the Big Beautiful Bill or OBBBA) would substantially reduce federal Medicaid and CHIP spending over the coming decade, with ...
As of 20 Nov 2025, the U.S. Department of Education — implementing provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — proposed a narrowed regulatory definition of “professional degree” that would ...
Federal law did not create an above‑the‑line charitable deduction that applies in the 2025 tax year; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) reinstates a limited above‑the‑line deduction for non‑itemiz...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) made the post‑2017 marginal tax structure permanent — keeping the seven rates that top out at 37% rather than allowing reversion to pre‑2018 rates — and left the fam...
Three major household and business clean-energy tax incentives—the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit (EEHIC/section 25C/25D variations), the Residential Clean Energy Credit (RCEC/section 25D), ...
The Department of Education’s 2026 regulatory proposal narrows the federal definition of “professional degree” from roughly 2,000 programs to under 600 and recognizes only about 11 primary program are...
Federal law generally restricts most “federal public benefits” to citizens and “qualified aliens” (like lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees), while states may create or fund separate program...
The Department of Education (ED) recently proposed a narrow regulatory definition of “professional degree” that ties eligibility for higher federal loan caps to specific criteria—doctoral-level instru...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) permanently raises and indexes the federal estate, gift, and generation‑skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions to $15 million per individual (effectively $30 mil...
The federal estate and gift tax exemption for deaths and gifts in 2025 is $13.99 million per individual ($27.98 million for married couples using portability), meaning estates below those amounts are ...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee and related Trump administration rulemaking in November 2025 proposed a much narrower definition of “professional degrees,” cutting the list from roughly 2...
The Department of Education’s negotiators have proposed a narrower definition of “professional degree” tied to implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA/H.R.1), which would cut the numbe...
The Department of Education’s proposed 2025–26 redefinition of “professional degree” would shrink programs considered professional from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and explicitly excludes many hea...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) narrowed the definition of “professional degree” to an explicit list of about 11 core fields and tightl...