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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‑...
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...
Donald Trump repeatedly proposed in 2024 and pressed the idea through 2025 that tariff revenue could be used to eliminate or sharply reduce federal income taxes and that the Internal Revenue Service c...
Available reporting shows an unprecedented wave of litigation and legal spending tied to President Trump’s actions and to suits against his administration — trackers counted hundreds of challenges in ...
Tariff receipts surged in fiscal 2025, with the U.S. Treasury taking in roughly $195 billion in customs duties that year — more than triple 2024 levels — though analysts disagree on how much of that i...
Starting in tax year 2026, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) creates a 0.5% floor on individual itemized charitable deductions (only amounts exceeding 0.5% of AGI are deductible) and a 1% floor f...
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 ...
Inflation during Donald Trump’s first term (2017–2021) remained low and stable, averaging roughly 1.9–2.5% year‑over‑year and dipping to 1.2% in 2020 amid the COVID downturn, according to multiple ret...
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...
Fiscal 2025 saw tariff receipts surge to roughly $165–195 billion (Treasury-based and reporting sources vary), more than double FY2024’s ~$77 billion and several times the typical pre-2025 annual coll...
In recent reporting and data analyses, nonprofit USAFacts and media outlets show a clear pattern: a group of "donor" states send more federal tax dollars to Washington than they receive back in federa...
Official and independent trackers show tariff collections rose sharply in 2025: the Treasury’s Monthly and other trackers report figures ranging from about $165 billion through August to $195–202 bill...
The 2025 law creates a temporary, per-person $6,000 “senior” deduction for taxpayers age 65+ (effective 2025–2028) that phases out beginning at $75,000 of modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) for sin...
Tariffs are legally paid at the border by importers — that is, the firms that bring goods into the country — but the economic burden is distributed and shifts over time among importers, domestic consu...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it collected “more than $200 billion” in tariffs this calendar year as of Dec. 15, 2025 . Independent trackers and budget analysts show a range of estimat...
Tariff money collected by U.S. importers is deposited into the federal government’s general accounts at the U.S. Treasury and becomes part of federal receipts that Congress must appropriate for spendi...
Public reporting shows Donald Trump paid little to no federal income tax in several years prior to and during his presidency because of reported large business losses and deductions; The New York Time...
Blue states do supply a disproportionate share of federal tax revenue—large, high-income states such as California, New York and Massachusetts account for a big slice of collections—while many lower‑i...
Available sources do not give a single definitive percentage of “African Americans who pay federal income tax” but they do provide related figures: analyses show that roughly 47% of U.S. filing units ...
Projections from multiple independent policy shops show that the second Trump administration’s tariff program is expected to raise several trillion dollars in federal receipts over the coming decade o...