President Trump undoubtedly stands on strong political ground, backed by most Americans, in cases where he’s deporting convicted criminals. Now comes a new test, literally 40 years in the making: How comfortable are Americans with deporting millions of immigrants who paid taxes, built families and committed no crimes after coming here illegally?
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media mention June 11, 2025 Axios: Behind the Curtain: A Decades-in-the-Making Immigration War
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media mention June 9, 2025 CBS News: Millions of U.S. Kids Could Lose the Child Tax Credit under GOP Budget Bill, Experts Say
A Republican-backed budget package includes a new restriction for the federal Child Tax Credit that could strip the benefit from millions of children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents, according to policy experts.
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media mention June 9, 2025 Newsweek: Child Tax Credit Could Be Stripped from Millions of Children
Anew budget proposal that would impose new restrictions on the federal Child Tax Credit could eliminate the benefit for millions of U.S. citizens or legally resident children, policy experts have said.
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media mention June 6, 2025 CNN: Trump’s Big Bill Includes an ‘Unprecedented’ Tax Credit for a National School Voucher Program. Here’s How It Would Work.
Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, says the program is generous – to say the least. “A dollar-for-dollar charitable donation tax credit is unprecedented at the federal level,” he told CNN in an email.
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media mention June 6, 2025 Injustice Watch: Property-Tax Foreclosure Reform Gets Put Off by Illinois Legislators
“It boggles the mind that the state legislature would just keep kicking the can down the road, and you have a crisis on your hands,” said Rita Jefferson, an analyst with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit that advocates for more equitable tax policies.
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media mention June 5, 2025 The American Prospect: Trump’s Beautiful Bill Will Kick 11 Million People Off Their Health Insurance
The Congressional Budget Office published its latest estimate of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Wednesday. The results are gruesome.
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media mention June 5, 2025 U.S. News & World Report: Ignore the Populist Rhetoric. The GOP Tax Bill Exposes their True Colors
The tax code is about more than depreciation, deductions, expenses and the things we focus on when we report our income to the IRS every April. It’s about who gets the breaks in this country – and what that says about the priorities and values of those who write our tax laws.
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media mention June 5, 2025 Fox News: Educational Choice for Children Act: A Tax Break for the Rich, Not a Lifeline for Students
A proposal quietly tucked into the House GOP’s reconciliation package, part of what’s being marketed as President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” would give wealthy individuals and corporations a 100% federal tax credit for donations to private school scholarship funds.
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media mention June 2, 2025 Missouri Independent: Proposed Federal Tax Changes could Mean $170M or More Cut to Missouri State Revenues
Along with hundreds of millions in potential new costs for Missouri taxpayers, an analysis of the budget bill backed by Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump shows it would also cut state revenue as tax changes at the federal level are reflected in state returns.
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media mention June 2, 2025 Kansas City Star: Tell Kansas’ Senators Not to Give Ultra-Wealthy a ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Loophole | Opinion
How’s that for a fun new federal tax scam to help the super-wealthy? “Donate” $10 million in stock to charity, purchased for $6 million — then get all $10 million back in tax credits and avoid more than $1 million in capital gains taxes. Massive benefits for already rich individuals — you gotta love it.
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media mention May 29, 2025 Vanity Fair: The GOP’s Big, Beautiful Bind
While Republicans made inroads with Black and Latino voters in 2024, they could also surrender such gains. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, in extending and expanding upon Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, rate and bracket changes would “create more racial inequality in our tax system by disproportionately favoring white taxpayers at the expense of others.”
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media mention May 28, 2025 Washington Post: GOP Rejects ‘Millionaire Tax’ Pitch, Advancing Breaks for Rich Americans
House Republicans rejected a push by some allies of President Donald Trump to include tax hikes on the rich in sweeping legislation they passed last week — a decision that could carry repercussions into next year’s elections.
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media mention May 27, 2025 Audio: ITEP’s Matt Gardner Discusses SALT Cap on ‘Here & Now'”
Lawmakers are divided over how to deal with the state and local tax deduction or SALT, after the House passed its version of the Republican spending bill last week. The cap tends to impact Americans who live in higher-tax states particularly hard.
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media mention May 26, 2025 Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio Homeowners Want Property Tax Relief. Other States May Offer a Solution
“Families are overloaded with their property taxes,” said Brakeyshia Samms, a senior analyst for the institute. “The circuit breaker kicks in like an electrical circuit breaker and helps alleviate the pressure that these taxes put on family budgets.”
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media mention May 24, 2025 New York Times: Religious Education Lost at the Supreme Court. But It’s Winning Everywhere Else.
The court rejected a religious charter school, but conservatives may get much of what they want in a school voucher program that passed the House this week. Read more. -
media mention May 24, 2025 The Guardian: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Benefits the Rich at the Expense of the Poor
Republicans in Congress are trying to pass a new tax and spending bill that may end up being a “big, beautiful bill” – but mostly for wealthy Americans. Read more. -
media mention May 23, 2025 NPR: 9 Things to Know about the Big, Private-School Voucher Plan in Republicans’ Tax Bill
“It’s about three times as generous as what you’re gonna get from donating to a children’s hospital or a veteran’s group or any other cause,” says Carl Davis at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “It really preferences voucher groups over every other kind of charity.”
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media mention May 23, 2025 NBC News: Education Groups Alarmed Over Budget Bill’s Boost for Private Schools
“The result would be a profitable tax shelter for wealthy people who agree to help funnel public funds into private schools,” Amy Hanauer, the institute’s executive director, said in the webinar. “That is to say they would get more money by donating their stock than by selling it.”
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media mention May 23, 2025 Axios: Child Tax Benefit Increase Leaves out Millions of Kids, Analysis Says
Under current law, families need upward of $30,000 a year to receive the full tax credit amount, explains Joe Hughes, senior analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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media mention May 23, 2025 The American Prospect: The Curious Case of the Republican Medicaid Turncoats
“It’s not surprising that this bill was written behind closed doors and rushed through in the night before Americans had a chance to see what it contains,” Amy Hanauer, executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, told the Prospect. “This bill extends enormous tax cuts to those who have the most. It will increase inequality, reduce health coverage, and take food from people’s tables, all to shower the wealthiest people in this country and foreign investors with tax breaks.”
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media mention May 23, 2025 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: What Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Mean to Pa. — and It’s Not Pretty
“This bill overall would cut all sorts of benefits for all sorts of Americans who rely on them, whether it’s health care or food assistance or energy credits,” said Jon Whiten, ITEP deputy director. “It’s all being done to find enough money to jam through all of these tax cuts which disproportionately would go to the wealthiest Americans. It’s a little bit like Robin Hood in reverse here.”
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media mention May 22, 2025 Inc.: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Offers a Big Tax Win for Small Businesses
The bill that the House of Representatives passed early Thursday morning in a nail-biting 215-to-214 vote—a wide-ranging domestic policy package called the One Big Beautiful Bill—could have wide-ranging and long-lasting implications for… -
media mention May 16, 2025 Washington Post: House GOP Plan to Raise Child Tax Credit Adds Citizenship Provisions
“This is, by definition, all children who are legally supposed to be here in the country,” said Joe Hughes, an analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy who worked on the study
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media mention May 15, 2025 NPR: What to Know About a Federal Proposal to Help Families Pay of Private School
A first-of-its-kind effort to leverage federal tax dollars to help families pay for private school tuition anywhere in the U.S. is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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media mention May 13, 2025 The Hill: House Panel Releases Sweeping GOP Tax Bill
“So far this costly bill appears to double down on trickle down, with huge tax cuts that will further enrich the rich and not much for the rest of us,” Amy Hanauer, director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said in a statement in response to Friday’s version of the bill.