While there is widespread support for Trump’s policies, it could have a negative impact on retirees across the U.S. by reducing the pool of funding available to pay benefits, increasing costs and contributing to an increase in inflation.
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media mention February 13, 2025 Newsweek: Donald Trump’s Immigration Plans Could Push Up Retirement Costs
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media mention February 12, 2025 New York Times: Opinion | Democrats Need to Learn How to Throw a Punch
For most of the past decade, progressives presented the battle over immigration as simply a fight against Republican cruelty, racism and xenophobia. Such messaging does not amount to a political strategy. By 2024, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris seemed to stop trying to win the debate. As border-state governments grappled with newcomers, Republican leaders saw a crisis they could seize and weaponize — while Democratic leaders offered no compelling case of their own.
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media mention February 11, 2025 Slate: This Is Not About Cost Cutting
As terrifying and probably illegal as Elon Musk’s tech-bro holy war against the federal government has been, it’s only Phase 1. Really, the spectacle of the past few weeks sets Donald Trump and Musk up for what they almost certainly want much more: massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
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media mention February 11, 2025 Video: ITEP’s Miles Trinidad Talks Maryland Tax Reform on WUSA9 TV
ITEP State Analyst Miles Trinidad spoke to WUSA9 TV about Gov. Wes Moore’s proposed tax reform package. Video is embedded below, and link to the story is here. -
media mention February 10, 2025 The Texas Tribune: Gov. Greg Abbott Wants to Set a High Bar for Local Tax Increases
Gov. Greg Abbott, in his bid to curb Texas’ high property taxes, wants Texas voters to have the final say on any property tax hike. Local governments that collect property taxes — including cities, counties and school districts — should have to win approval from a two-thirds majority of voters if they want to raise their tax rates, Abbott said.
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media mention February 3, 2025 Miami Herald: Commentary: Undocumented Immigrants Are Well Documented. Just Ask the IRS.
The phrase “undocumented immigrant” is deeply misleading, if not outright inaccurate. It implies that there is a mass of people in the U.S. that essentially live off the grid, apart from society, existing only in informal economies and off-the-book transactions. In fact, immigrants who lack permission to be in the U.S. are enmeshed in society with plenty of formal and official documents to their name, from tax returns to mortgages.
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media mention January 31, 2025 New York Times: What Mass Deportations Would Do to New York City’s Economy
That number comes not from a left-leaning human rights group intent on fostering sympathy for people who crossed the border illegally, but rather from the wonky Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan Washington think tank. The organization’s research also tells us that nationally, more than a third of the tax dollars paid by undocumented immigrants go toward payroll taxes, which are aimed at backing entitlement programs that these workers are not entitled to access.
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media mention January 30, 2025 The New Statesman: Donald Trump’s Florida Project
But Mar-a-Lago is just the crown jewel in the Floridisation of US politics. A born and bred New Yorker, Trump switched his primary residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach during his first term, stating that he had “been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state [of New York]. Few have been treated worse.” There was also a more practical rationale for becoming a Florida resident: lower taxes. Florida is one of just nine states that do not levy state income taxes on residents. According to a recent report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, it has the most regressive tax system in the US: low-income families pay almost five times as much of their income as the wealthy. (Florida ranks 49th in the nation for income inequality.)
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media mention January 29, 2025 Yahoo News: Simu Liu Speaks Out on Trump’s New Tax Plan
Simu Liu has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s newly proposed U.S. tax plan, which seeks to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and introduce new measures that primarily benefit high-income earners and corporations.
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media mention January 28, 2025 Mother Jones: Trump Tax Cuts Not Just Good For Billionaires, Say Billionaires
A group founded by the billionaire Koch brothers is on a mission: to extend the massive tax cuts Trump instituted in his first term, and to convince working-class Americans that those cuts benefit them, too—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
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media mention January 28, 2025 Barron’s: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Play Havoc with the Economy
The White House is making good on President Trump’s campaign promises to eject unauthorized immigrants from U.S. soil, with deportation flights rolling out over the weekend. But the economic consequences of deportation and massive rollbacks on immigration could be severe.
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media mention January 27, 2025 Video: ITEP’s Marco Guzman Discusses the Tax Contributions of Undocumented Immigrants on Telemundo
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media mention January 27, 2025 The Guardian: Charles Koch’s Network Launches $20m Campaing Backing Trump Tax Breaks
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the flagship political arm of the rightwing network formed by the fossil fuels billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David, is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign backing Donald Trump’s plans to extend tax cuts and roll back federal regulations.
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media mention January 27, 2025 Salon: The High Opportunity Cost of Trump’s Economy
President Donald Trump is returning to the White House with the strongest economy in the world; unemployment is low, inflation continues to trend downward and growth is accelerating. Yet, Trump is about to unravel our post-COVID recovery with an attempt to enact a toxic economic agenda of tariffs, mass deportations and tax cuts for the mega-rich. All paid for with cuts to programs that benefit working class Americans.
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media mention January 23, 2025 Newsweek: California Braces for Donald Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
California is gearing up for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, which includes mass deportations and sweeping raids targeting undocumented immigrants. Read more. -
media mention January 22, 2025 Business Insider: Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Could Drain More Than $20 Billion a Year from Social Security
President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining the Social Security fund. As more Americans reach retirement age — many without adequate savings — Social Security can be a financial… -
media mention January 22, 2025 Audio: ITEP’s Eli Byerly-Duke Discusses California’s Tax System with Stew Jenkins
ITEP State Policy Analyst Eli Byerly Duke appeared on the SLO County Public Policy & The Law program on K-News 98.5 to discuss California’s tax system. Listen here. -
media mention January 20, 2025 Money: Congress Is Gearing Up for a Fight Over Trump’s Tax Cuts
Once the fanfare of Donald Trump’s inauguration fades, Congress has to get to work on taxes — and it won’t be pretty. At issue is the Tax Cuts and Jobs… -
media mention January 20, 2025 Audio: ITEP’s Marco Guzman Talks to NC Newsline About the Costs of Mass Deportation
Among the actions that the new Trump administration is expected to make a top priority in the coming days is an aggressive new mass deportation initiative targeting the nation’s millions… -
media mention January 17, 2025 CNBC: These Five Republicans Are Ready to Derail Trump’s Tax Cuts Over the SALT Cap
An influential group of five House Republicans from high-tax states is threatening to hold up a major tax package that is a top priority for President-elect Donald Trump unless they get a… -
media mention January 16, 2025 Associated Press: Maryland Gov. Moore Includes Income Tax Increases for Wealthy Residents to Help Address $3B Deficit
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore released a budget plan Wednesday that includes higher income tax rates for taxpayers who make more than $500,000, as well as about $2 billion in spending… -
media mention January 15, 2025 MSNBC: Trump Inverts Reality with His Claims about Migrants Hurting Social Security
A key plank of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign tirades against undocumented immigrants was that they drain vital social services that are facing insolvency threats. “Unlike the Democrats, who are KILLING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE by allowing the INVASION OF THE MIGRANTS, I will NOT, under any circumstance, allow either of these two precious GEMS to be even touched under a Trump Administration,” he posted on Truth Social in one characteristic broadside last year.
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media mention January 14, 2025 New Mexico In Depth: Poverty Fell More Than a Third in New Mexico Due to Tax Changes, But There’s More to Do
Federal data released last fall show that, after accounting for government benefits, over the last decade the share of New Mexicans experiencing poverty declined more than in almost any other… -
media mention January 13, 2025 New York Times: How Unauthorized Immigrants Help Finance Social Security Benefits
The Social Security Administration receives billions in free money each year from an unexpected source: undocumented immigrants.
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media mention January 2, 2025 CBS News: These 9 States Are Cutting Income Taxes on Jan. 1
Some Americans could get a break on their state income taxes this year, with nine states kicking off 2025 with a reduction in their individual income tax rates. Read more.