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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.

Missouri Independent: Proposed Federal Tax Changes could Mean $170M or More Cut to Missouri State Revenues

June 2, 2025

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.

Kansas City Star: Tell Kansas’ Senators Not to Give Ultra-Wealthy a ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Loophole | Opinion

June 2, 2025

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.

Vanity Fair: The GOP’s Big, Beautiful Bind

May 29, 2025

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.”

Washington Post: GOP Rejects ‘Millionaire Tax’ Pitch, Advancing Breaks for Rich Americans

May 28, 2025

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.

Audio: ITEP’s Matt Gardner Discusses SALT Cap on ‘Here & Now'”

May 27, 2025

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.

Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio Homeowners Want Property Tax Relief. Other States May Offer a Solution

May 26, 2025

"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."

New York Times: Religious Education Lost at the Supreme Court. But It’s Winning Everywhere Else.

May 24, 2025

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.

The Guardian: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Benefits the Rich at the Expense of the Poor

May 24, 2025

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.

NPR: 9 Things to Know about the Big, Private-School Voucher Plan in Republicans’ Tax Bill

May 23, 2025

"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."

NBC News: Education Groups Alarmed Over Budget Bill’s Boost for Private Schools

May 23, 2025

“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.”

Axios: Child Tax Benefit Increase Leaves out Millions of Kids, Analysis Says

May 23, 2025

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.

The American Prospect: The Curious Case of the Republican Medicaid Turncoats

May 23, 2025

“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.”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: What Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Will Mean to Pa. — and It’s Not Pretty

May 23, 2025

“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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