The 2025 tax law rewards the top
The richest tenth gains about $13,600 a year from the tax provisions, according to CBO.
Read the brief →Receipts CBO enacted-law score · CBO enacted-law distribution · KFF
Forty trillion dollars, taken from your kids, handed to their donors.
Trump signed the 2025 law. Republicans in Congress passed it. Their own government’s numbers show the poorest families losing resources while the richest families gain thousands of dollars a year.
Interest on the debt since you opened this page
The U.S. paid $970 billion in net interest in fiscal 2025 — $30,758 every second. It now outspends defense ($917B) and Medicaid ($668B). Treasury via CRFB
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Added since January 2017
The debt read $19.9T the day Trump first took office. It reached $40.0T as of Aug. 21, 2026. Treasury
Your household's share
$40.03T ÷ 132.9M U.S. households. Census Bureau
What they handed their donors.
What they took from you.
Two lists. First, what government choices handed to the rich. Then, what working people paid. Every item opens a full brief, and every receipt stays visible.
Handed to the rich
Their gainThe permanent corporate rate cut
Corporations got a permanent rate cut from 35% to 21%. The top 1% averaged about $33,000 in 2018.
Read the brief →Receipts JCT via CBPP · Tax Policy Center
The paycheck bailout that flowed upward
Owners, shareholders, and creditors received 66% to 77% of the program’s benefits. About three-quarters landed in the richest fifth.
Read the brief →Receipts NBER w29669 (Autor et al.)
The carried-interest loophole survives
Private-equity and hedge-fund managers can treat part of their pay as lower-taxed investment gains.
Read the brief →Receipts CBO via PGPF · Yale Budget Lab
Taken from you
Your costThe poorest tenth loses under the 2025 law
CBO estimates the poorest tenth loses resources while the richest tenth gains about $13,600 a year from the law's tax provisions.
Read the brief →Receipts CBO enacted-law score · CBO enacted-law distribution · KFF
The Medicaid cut
$840 billion comes out of Medicaid. About 10.3 million people are projected to leave the rolls by 2034.
Read the brief →Receipts KFF · CBPP · CBO enacted-law distribution
The food assistance cut
Nearly $300 billion comes out of SNAP, which serves 42 million people and averages about $6 per person a day.
Read the brief →Receipts CBPP · CBO enacted-law distribution
The coverage loss
CBO projects 10 million more people without health insurance by 2034.
Read the brief →Receipts CBO 61463 · CBPP · CBO enacted-law distribution
The premium help that expired
KFF estimates the average marketplace enrollee’s annual premium payment rose from $888 to $1,904 — a $1,016 increase.
Read the brief →The tariff tax at the register
Yale Budget Lab estimates about $570 a year for the average household. The poorest tenth loses about three times as much income proportionally as the richest tenth.
Read the brief →Receipts Yale Budget Lab
The interest on their borrowing
$970 billion in FY2025 — $30,758 every second. Divided by the number of U.S. households, that is about $7,300 each, though it is not an actual per-household bill.
Read the brief →Receipts Treasury via CRFB · Treasury Debt to the Penny
Trump’s 2025 tax law and tariffs make the poorest nine-tenths worse off. The only income group that gains is the richest tenth: +$7,900 a year.
Average annual change in household resources, 2026–2034 — Yale Budget Lab.
Poorest 10%−$2,700
10–20%−$1,900
20–30%−$1,700
30–40%−$1,400
40–50%−$1,300
50–60%−$1,200
60–70%−$1,000
70–80%−$800
80–90%−$300
Richest 10%+$7,900
Top 1% · law alone≈ +$75,000
Top 0.1% · law alone≈ +$300,000
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The striped bars use a different measure — the 2025 law alone — but every bar below uses the same dollar scale. Scroll right →
Poorest 10%−$2,700
10–20%−$1,900
20–30%−$1,700
30–40%−$1,400
40–50%−$1,300
50–60%−$1,200
60–70%−$1,000
70–80%−$800
80–90%−$300
Richest 10%+$7,900
Striped bars below are a different measure: the top 1% and top 0.1% tax cut from the 2025 law alone, not the combined deciles above.
Top 1%≈ +$75,000
Top 0.1% ($5M+)≈ +$300,000
Decile bars: Yale Budget Lab, combined effects of the 2025 law and 2025 tariffs, average change in household resources per year, 2026–2034 (August 2025 estimates; tariff rates have shifted since — the shape has not). Top 1% / 0.1% bars: Tax Policy Center, average 2026 tax change from the law alone — a different measure, marked with hatching. And none of this counts the interest on the borrowing that paid for it — $970 billion a year, money spent servicing debt, not on anything.
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