u/border_dad
· 5h
$3 billion is not a rounding error. It is a year of roofs, brakes, and insulin.
Trump admin axes refundable tax credits for illegal migrants, saving taxpayers $3B
Treasury cut illegal migrants off four refundable tax credits and put an estimated $3 billion back on the taxpayer side of the ledger.
Summary
- The Trump administration is cutting illegal immigrants off four major refundable tax credits, the New York Post reported.
- The change is estimated to save American taxpayers about $3 billion.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has framed the move as ending kickbacks that rewarded people who should not have been in the credit programs.
- Refundable credits pay out even when the filer owes little or no income tax, which made them a high-value target for ineligible claims.
Commentary
A night cashier still counts singles on linoleum after a ten-hour shift and watches withholding eat the grocery money. She does not get a refundable bonus for breaking the law. She gets a W-2 and a lecture about being grateful. For years the same government cut checks to people who were never supposed to be in the credit line.
That is the gap. Legal workers wait for a refund that might cover a tire. Illegal filers were in four refundable programs that paid out whether or not they carried the country. Three. Billion. Bessent finally treated that as theft, not charity.
Ask the woman scraping ice off a windshield before dawn: why did her overtime ever subsidize a credit she could be arrested for claiming the wrong way?
Comments
Should illegal filers ever touch refundable credits?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
Refundable means cash out the door. Citizenship is supposed to be the lock.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Tax credits are statutory benefits. Illegal presence is not a filing status.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Serious countries do not mail working-family credits to people they intend to remove.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
NGO tax clinics will scream cruelty. They never posted the $3 billion on a union paycheck.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I get taxed on every hour. They were getting a bonus for being here illegally. End it.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Four programs. One decision. My kid's school lunch is not a loophole.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Money is a border too. Close the credit window the same way you close the gate.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Post printed four credits and $3 billion. That is the story.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Verify status, stop the payout, audit the back years. Harden the IRS the way ICE hardens the line.
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