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Donald Trump is legally entitled to a $400,000 annual presidential salary (plus allowances) and publicly said he would not keep it; sources report he donated or directed his quarterly paychecks to gov...
The Big Beautiful Bill (One Big Beautiful Bill Act / Public Law No. 119-21) largely preserves the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act framework into 2025, keeping the seven tax rates and elevated standard dedu...
The published six years of ’s 2015–2020 federal tax returns and accompanying analysis that emphasized unusually large reported losses and negative adjusted gross income in multiple years, substantial ...
Enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits temporarily expanded eligibility so some higher-income households can receive subsidies; most federal spending on the enhanced credits goes to pe...
The best-supported range for annual federal corporate tax breaks and similar tax‑incentive measures lies between depending on which official measure and methodology is used; independent analyses have ...
Federal spending on the Affordable Care Act’s premium subsidies has grown substantially since 2014, driven by enrollment growth and temporary enhancements enacted in 2021 and extended through 2025; es...
Executive summary The different analyses converge on a clear theme: , but the exact annual figure depends on definition and timeframe. Recent mid‑2020s estimates center around , while shorter historic...
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) premium subsidies are a net federal expenditure but they also offset other federal and state healthcare costs by reducing uncompensated care and lowering reliance on sa...
Independent budget analyses attribute roughly $8.4 trillion of added borrowing during the Trump years to a combination of tax cuts, pandemic relief and other spending; of that, the Committee for a Res...
The evidence in the provided analyses shows , while some analyses and partisan statements argue that provisions and enforcement changes effectively raised burdens for some middle‑class taxpayers. The ...
President Donald Trump publicly pledged to donate his presidential salary and did make repeated quarterly contributions to federal agencies during most of his term, but contemporary reporting and tax-...
The evidence in the provided reporting and analyses shows that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduced federal revenues and added substantially to projected deficits—CBO/JCT estimates put the 20...
Federal law treats tax returns and “return information” as confidential by default under , and the statute prescribes narrow channels and reporting requirements when federal agencies or the request ac...
A small handful of states have already taken explicit positions on whether to “conform” to the for qualified tips and qualified overtime introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill; most states remain un...
Yes — in 2025 Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration enacted and implemented a tax package that independent and mainstream reporters and analysts estimate will reduce federal revenue by ...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 materially reduced federal revenues and raised deficits in its first years: official and independent scores projected roughly $1–2 trillion of added deficits o...
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and other nonpartisan analyses originally concluded the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would lower deficits overall; CBO estimated repeal would increase deficits by hundre...
The 2017 tax law eliminated the ACA’s federal individual mandate penalty effective 2019, a change the Congressional Budget Office estimated would raise the uninsured by millions and push up individual...
Congressional analysts estimated the American Rescue Plan’s (ARPA) enhancements to marketplace premium tax credits would raise federal spending by roughly $22 billion (outlays) and reduce revenues by ...
CBO estimated that enacting H.R. 1 as passed by the House on May 22, 2025 would raise federal deficits by $2.4 trillion over 2025–2034 and—after adding projected debt‑service costs—would raise the bil...