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CBS News: Florida’s Month-long School Tax “Holiday” Kicks Off This Week
July 28, 2025
The Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy argues the discount periods have minimal benefit for working families.
Las Vegas Sun: Rep. Susie Lee: One Big Beautiful Bill Is Unfair, Unpopular – And It’s Soon Coming to Las Vegas
July 28, 2025
It is one of the least popular pieces of legislation in modern American history, giving massive, permanent tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and temporary crumbs for working families in Southern Nevada.
The Guardian: CEO Pay Climbs Ahead of Trump Tax Windfall for Wealthy, Says Report
July 24, 2025
“Corporate CEOs are raking in millions, and now they’ll get another kickback from President Trump’s tax cut gift and anti-worker agenda,” said Fred Redmond.
Santa Fe New Mexican: New Mexico’s Tax-Free Holiday Offers Back-to-School Shoppers a Break This Weekend
July 24, 2025
Many observers seem split on whether the state’s annual three-day hiatus on collecting tax on many items provides enough economic benefits to justify its costs.
Boston Globe: Trump’s Attack on In-State Tuition for Dreamers is Bad Law – And Worse Policy
July 22, 2025
The White House continues to revel in its brutal immigration crackdown and to insist that mass raids, deportation without due process, ghastly detention camps, sweeping arrests of people with no criminal record, and expulsion of asylum-seekers and even US citizens are what Americans voted for when they returned President Trump to office. But the public is having serious second thoughts.
PolitiFact: Trump Signs Legislation Introducing Federal Tax Credit for School Choice
July 17, 2025
The new legislation adds a new option for people to support school choice programs, but does not guarantee what Trump describes as "universal school choice."
Fortune: For the First Time in 50 Years, The U.S. Will Likely Experience Negative Net Migration, Shrinking The U.S. Workforce – And Economic Growth by Extension
July 16, 2025
President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants could likely result in a hit to the U.S. labor force that would shrink the country’s gross domestic product, new data shows.
USA Today: Would Mamdani’s ‘Millionaire Tax’ Chase the Rich Out of New York City?
July 14, 2025
Taxing the rich has worked before. In the World War II era, the wealthiest Americans endured a top tax rate above 90% to buoy the economy. But would it work now?
Rolling Stone: Every Dirty Gift Trump’s Big Bill Gives the Fossil Fuel Industry
July 10, 2025
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” provides billions of dollars in giveaways to the fossil fuel industry and its wealthiest executives while taking a machete to our national effort to confront the climate crisis and build healthier, more sustainable, and more just communities.
Washington Post: Conservatives Are Asking Trump for Another Big Tax Cut
July 10, 2025
Fresh off passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” several conservative organizations and Republican lawmakers are preparing to ask President Donald Trump for another major tax cut – this time, potentially without congressional approval.
NC Newsline: NC Lawmakers Urged to Act as Federal Cuts Threaten State Services
July 10, 2025
A coalition of policy experts and wealthy advocates warned North Carolina lawmakers that recent federal budget cuts could devastate state services, urging action to protect health care, food assistance and other public programs.
The American Prospect: Right-Wing State Tax ‘Revolution’ Rolls On
July 10, 2025
Donald Trump and congressional Republicans aren’t the only ones enacting massive tax cuts that heavily favor the wealthy and big business. Republican state legislators backed by corporate-funded advocacy groups have also made significant strides toward flattening or eliminating once-progressive state income taxes in this year’s legislative sessions.
CNN: Here’s Who Will – And Won’t – Qualify for the New Car Loan Interest Deduction
July 9, 2025
President Donald Trump’s mega tax-and-spending cuts bill, signed into law last week, contains plenty of new tax provisions, the contours of which Americans are still digesting.
Washington Post: Trump’s Tax Law Includes a $40,000 SALT Cap. Here’s Who Qualifies.
July 9, 2025
The new GOP tax law quadruples how much people can deduct in state and local taxes off their federal returns, offering significant relief to high earners in many Democratic-led states by partially undoing a big change in President Donald Trump’s 2017 law.
New York Times: States Brace for Added Burdens of Trump’s Tax and Spending Law
July 7, 2025
The ink is not even dry on the far-reaching domestic policy law that President Trump signed on Friday, and already state governments are bracing for impact as Washington shifts much of the burden for health care, food assistance and other programs onto them.
Washington Post: How Trump’s Big Bill Will Affect You, From Medicaid Cuts to Tax Credits
July 7, 2025
Congress has signed off on a $3.4 trillion legislative package featuring new tax breaks, spending cuts, and more funding for defense and immigration enforcement, delivering President Donald Trump his “big, beautiful bill” despite rumblings from fiscal hawks about the projected $4 trillion it could add to the national debt over the next decade.
Yahoo Finance: Child Tax Credit Gets Small Boost in Trump’s Tax Bill, but Millions of Families Are Left Out
July 7, 2025
The popular child tax credit will receive a slight boost from President Trump’s signature tax and spending bill – but there are caveats.
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.
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