The Department of Government Efficiency claims $150 billion in savings from layoffs, canceled government contracts and shuttered agencies. Analysts dispute that number.
The Trump administration is focused on testing Humphrey’s Executor, a 90-year-old legal precedent that requires cause for firing independent agency appointees.
If more undocumented immigrants stop filing and begin working outside of the traditional payroll system, the annual gap between taxes owed and taxes paid could widen.