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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
US corporate tax expenditures are consistently reported in the low-to-mid annually: Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) materials and congressional analyses place corporate tax expenditures at about and...
The 2025 tax debate centers on sharply different revenue outcomes: Republican-sponsored packages are projected to cut federal revenue by over 2025–2034 on conventional scores, while Democratic proposa...
The claim that a proposed would hit low-income families in 2025 is inconsistent across available analyses: some sources describe a large disproportionate burden, others report cuts for the poorest, an...
Donald Trump’s disclosed federal tax payments — including widely reported $750 filings for 2016 and 2017 and a Joint Committee on Taxation summary showing $1,500 for those two years — are tiny compare...
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and its extension in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) sharply increased ACA premium subsidies for 2021–2025, fully subsidizing a benchmark Silver premium for house...