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New York Times: Congress Passes a National School Voucher Program
July 7, 2025
The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the wealthiest families. But states must opt in, which could limit its reach.
Video: ITEP’s Amy Hanauer Discusses Megabill on BreakThrough News
July 6, 2025
ITEP Executive Director Amy Hanauer appeared on BreakThrough News’ The Freedom Side live on Thursday, July 3 to discuss the tax and spending megabill moving through Congress.
CNBC: Why Trump Tax Deductions – For Tips, Car Loans and More – May Not Carry Large Benefits for Low Earners
July 3, 2025
How much money you save with tax deductions, which reduce your taxable income, depends on your bracket. Deductions are more valuable to higher-income households and less beneficial for lower earners, experts said.
Houston Chronicle: The Biggest Winners in Texas from Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
July 1, 2025
Most every Texan stands to see at least some benefit from the tax cuts at the heart of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” But the biggest benefits are geared toward the wealthiest people, who will not only continue to enjoy hefty tax cuts but also gain access to a host of new tax breaks of […]
Newsweek: Did Republicans Just Kill the Filibuster?
July 1, 2025
Michael Ettlinger, a political adviser who previously worked with the Biden-Harris campaign, said, "If the Republican's new accounting method becomes the norm, it will be far easier to pass deficit increasing legislation in the Senate with a simple majority vote – limiting the impact of the filibuster."
AP News: Ohio Budget Bill With Browns Stadium Funding, LGBTQ+ Restrictions Heads to Gov. Mike DeWine
June 27, 2025
Republicans tout that as a benefit to working Ohioans and the economy and another step in their continuing efforts to reduce the state’s tax burden, with the aim of some of them being to eventually eliminate the income tax entirely. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit, found 98% of the benefit […]
CNBC: How the Republican Megabill Targets Immigrant Finances
June 26, 2025
“If a U.S. citizen is married to an undocumented immigrant, or if a citizen child has an undocumented parent, then the House bill considers the citizen to have forfeited their right to a range of tax breaks,” ITEP researchers Carl Davis and Sarah Austin wrote in an analysis in May. Read more.
The Wall Street Journal: The Tax Bill Would Deliver a Big Win for Private Schools – and Investors
June 23, 2025
“The new tax credit could become a model for Congress to direct money to other causes through the tax code,” said Carl Davis, research director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Read more.
USA Today: Trump Orders ICE to Expand Efforts in NYC, LA, Chicago: See How Many Immigrants Live in Major Metros
June 23, 2025
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022. Of that amount, $59.4 billion was paid to the federal government, and the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments. Read more.
WHYY News: ‘Every dollar counts’: Critics Say Plan to Increase Fees, Taxes and Tolls Will Disproportionately Hurt Poor Delawareans
June 23, 2025
Miles Trinidad, a state analyst for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan tax policy organization, said flat fee increases like the document fee and the cigarette tax are regressive and will hurt low-income Delawareans. Read more.
Christian Science Monitor: US Economy Faces Reckoning as Some Immigrants Avoid Workplaces
June 20, 2025
But while the impact of President Trump’s deportation sweep may take time to register, uncertainty caused by policy shifts, muscular arrests, and deportations is already taking a toll. Read more.
The Washington Post: The U.S. is Giving Up on Taxing Inheritances
June 18, 2025
“The estate tax is barely hanging on right now,” said Steve Wamhoff, federal policy director at the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. “This bill would make sure it almost disappears.” Read more.
CNBC: How Senate GOP ‘No Tax on Tips’ Proposal Differs From House Republican Plan
June 18, 2025
However, the Senate proposal is different from the House version in two key ways, Matt Gardner, senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, wrote in an e-mail. Read more.
Yahoo Finance: What The Business World Has to Like (and Not) in Senate Version of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
June 17, 2025
Amy Hanauer, executive director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, reacted to the released proposal by saying that “the emerging clean energy economy will be curtailed and for what?” “Our communities will be worse off as a result of this legislation,” she added. Read more.
New York Times: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades
June 16, 2025
The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners and reduces benefits for the poor. If it’s enacted, that combination would make it more regressive than any major tax or entitlement law in decades. Read more.
MarketWatch: How Trump Wants to Use the U.S. Tax Code to Crack Down on Undocumented Immigrants
June 16, 2025
Unauthorized immigrants paid almost $97 billion in federal, state and local taxes during 2022. Read more.
USA Today: Los Angeles is Grappling with ‘Collective Grief and Frustration’ Amid Protests
June 12, 2025
In a year that's already been punctuated by the devastating wildfires that will take years to rebuild, an emotionally weary Los Angeles County is back in an unwanted spotlight due to nearly a week of anti-ICE protests that are testing its character.
Axios: Behind the Curtain: A Decades-in-the-Making Immigration War
June 11, 2025
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?
CBS News: Millions of U.S. Kids Could Lose the Child Tax Credit under GOP Budget Bill, Experts Say
June 9, 2025
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.
Newsweek: Child Tax Credit Could Be Stripped from Millions of Children
June 9, 2025
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.
CNN: Trump’s Big Bill Includes an ‘Unprecedented’ Tax Credit for a National School Voucher Program. Here’s How It Would Work.
June 6, 2025
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.
Injustice Watch: Property-Tax Foreclosure Reform Gets Put Off by Illinois Legislators
June 6, 2025
“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.
The American Prospect: Trump’s Beautiful Bill Will Kick 11 Million People Off Their Health Insurance
June 5, 2025
The Congressional Budget Office published its latest estimate of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Wednesday. The results are gruesome.
U.S. News & World Report: Ignore the Populist Rhetoric. The GOP Tax Bill Exposes their True Colors
June 5, 2025
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.
Fox News: Educational Choice for Children Act: A Tax Break for the Rich, Not a Lifeline for Students
June 5, 2025
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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