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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act and its impact on SNAP benefits for noncitizens.
Beginning with tax year 2026, Forms W-2 and the 1099 series will be revised to require separate reporting of “qualified tips” and “qualified overtime compensation,” ending the temporary transition rel...
The best publicly available contingency estimates put roughly 19,600 ICE employees — about 95–96% of ICE’s onboard workforce in 2025 — into the “excepted” or retained category that continues working d...
Federal rules governing whether Social Security benefits are included in taxable income are changing in 2026 at both the national and state levels, producing a patchwork of outcomes: Congress is consi...
The scheduled 2026 reversion of ACA premium-subsidy rules will raise out-of-pocket premium costs for many low- and moderate-income households by shrinking subsidy amounts, reinstating the 400%-of-FPL ...
—federally funded SNAP (food stamp) benefits have never been available to undocumented immigrants, though members of mixed‑status households who are U.S. citizens or otherwise “qualified” noncitizens ...
The largely preserves traditional AGI‑based caps on charitable deductions (notably the permanent 60% limit for cash gifts to public charities) while making 2025 a strategic year to accelerate giving a...
in 2025 enacted a suite of domestic immigration measures that combined statutory changes, sweeping executive orders and proclamations, and regulatory actions—most prominently the (H.R.1) and a string ...
The federal income tax in the United States is a progressive, marginal tax system with seven ordinary-income rates for tax year 2026: 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37% . The IRS adjusted the 2026 b...
Expanding the U.S. federal law enforcement workforce by “tens of thousands” would require a mix of appropriations across multiple annual spending bills, targeted supplemental or mandatory funding auth...
Employers historically have no single, federally mandated, standardized set of short codes for overtime reporting in Box 14 of Form W‑2; Box 14 is a catch‑all “Other” field where employers may label e...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act fueled an unprecedented ICE hiring surge in 2025—authorizing roughly 10,000 new officers and providing billions to expand enforcement—driving the agency from about 10,00...
Yes — Social Security benefits can still be federally taxable for retired seniors in tax year 2026, but changes enacted in 2025 and state-level rollbacks mean many retirees will face reduced or no fed...
House Homeland Security Committee Democrats formally asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) 2025 hiring surge and related training pract...