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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States
A precise, independently verifiable year‑by‑year table of interior removals for FY2009–FY2024 is not fully available in the supplied reporting; instead, the sources collectively provide key datapoints...
The past 15 fiscal years show a clear arc: deficits fell from the Great Recession peak into the mid-2010s, widened again after 2017 tax and spending changes, exploded during the COVID pandemic, and th...
has seen several high-profile national emergencies in recent years — from the declaration in 2020 to repeated southern‑border proclamations and long‑running, statutory emergencies that predate modern ...
distinguishes ""—compulsory departures based on a removal order that carry administrative or criminal consequences for future reentry—from "returns," which are confirmed movements out of the that occu...
, invoked in March 2020 and continued into the , allowed rapid at the southern border and effectively blocked many asylum seekers from filing claims, resulting in roughly 2.7–2.96 million expulsions w...
Federal and legal scholarship agrees that a minority of states have statutes that expressly let a specified state official postpone or reschedule elections in an emergency, and multiple government and...
The dominant medical pathway to death from was severe respiratory disease—most commonly primary viral pneumonia progressing to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and respiratory failure—often ...
This season’s centers on three vaccines: the 2025–26 seasonal flu shot (trivalent, with a newly approved at-home nasal option), updated 2025–26 for those 6 months and older, and targeted for high‑risk...
The best public tally of people encountered trying to cross the border illegally during the period covering the end of 2016 through the end of 2020 is found in “encounters” (apprehensions and expulsio...
between 2016 and 2020 were driven by a mix of shifting push factors in sending countries, changing migration geography, and stronger enforcement and pandemic-era policies that interrupted flows — prod...
Right‑wing extremism in the United States increased after 2020 for a mix of proximate triggers and deeper drivers: amplified online recruitment and coordination, the political turmoil around the 2020 ...
The largest COVID-era drivers of U.S. debt increases attributed to the Trump administration were the emergency rescue packages enacted in 2020—most notably the CARES Act and related stimulus programs ...
National emergencies have repeatedly shaped how Americans vote, who can vote, and how elections are administered: wars and pandemics have compressed turnout, forced legal improvisation, and prompted d...