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America in Facts 2025 – USAFacts.com

America in Facts 2025

To find solutions to issues affecting the United States, everyone, from regular citizens to top policymakers, needs data to understand how the government is serving the people.

About the report

In this report, America in Facts 2025: A Data-Driven Report for Congress, we leverage nonpartisan government data to inform critical policy debates of particular interest to the 119th Congress, including taxes, federal finances, and immigration and border security, among others.

Explore what we shared with Congress below or download the report.

Read the PDF report

Report chapters

01 Federal finances 02Taxes 03Standard of living 04Economy 05Immigration 06Population

Federal finances

Questions about how the federal government raises and spends money are front and center in 2025. With debates intensifying over the future of major programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest payments consuming a growing share of the budget, this chapter offers a factual baseline to understand how the federal government raises and allocates money. It highlights recent trends in taxes, spending, deficits, and debt and provides essential context for evaluating fiscal policy choices.

Read the chapter

Federal individual income taxes

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was passed in 2017 and was first effective during the 2018 tax season. It made sweeping changes to the individual provisions of the federal tax code, particularly the standard deduction and itemized deductions. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 made some of those changes permanent, tweaked others, and introduced new tax code provisions.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article: https://usafacts.org/research-and-initiatives/reports/america-in-facts/

#2025 #America #AmericaInFacts2025 #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #USAFacts #USAFactsOrg

Numbers & facts only.
How's our money spent?
What's the most efficient services?

✅ What’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill”? | USAFacts
https://usafacts.org/articles/whats-in-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/
#steveballmer #usafacts #JonStewart

#2024 #US #government revenue and spending
#USAFacts has a Sankey diagram that shows the money that came in during 2024 and how the revenue was distributed.
According to data from U.S. Treasury Department, $4.9 trillion came in mostly through taxes and $6.8 trillion went out. The difference, $1.8 trillion, contributes to the deficit. It will be interesting to see what this diagram looks like after this year is done (if the data exists).
https://usafacts.org/government-spending/

The number of House Representatives each state has is determined by its population size.

Since 1980, Texas (+11 seats), Florida (+9), and California (+7) have grown the most, while New York (-8), Pennsylvania (-6), and Ohio (-6) have lost seats.

Is your state’s delegation growing?
(Courtesy of Steve Ballmer's USA Facts) #JustTheFacts #usafacts

The number of House Representatives each state has is determined by its population size.

Since 1980, Texas (+11 seats), Florida (+9), and California (+7) have grown the most, while New York (-8), Pennsylvania (-6), and Ohio (-6) have lost seats.

Is your state’s delegation growing?
(Courtesy of Steve Ballmer's USA Facts) #JustTheFacts #usafacts

The number of House Representatives each state has is determined by its population size.

Since 1980, Texas (+11 seats), Florida (+9), and California (+7) have grown the most, while New York (-8), Pennsylvania (-6), and Ohio (-6) have lost seats.

Is your state’s delegation growing?
(Courtesy of Steve Ballmer's USA Facts) #JustTheFacts #usafacts

The number of House Representatives each state has is determined by its population size.

Since 1980, Texas (+11 seats), Florida (+9), and California (+7) have grown the most, while New York (-8), Pennsylvania (-6), and Ohio (-6) have lost seats.

Is your state’s delegation growing?
(Courtesy of Steve Ballmer's USA Facts) #JustTheFacts #usafacts

The number of House Representatives each state has is determined by its population size.

Since 1980, Texas (+11 seats), Florida (+9), and California (+7) have grown the most, while New York (-8), Pennsylvania (-6), and Ohio (-6) have lost seats.

Is your state’s delegation growing?
(Courtesy of Steve Ballmer's USA Facts) #JustTheFacts #usafacts

Watch Steve Ballmer in this video series, "Just the Facts":
In this series, USAFacts Founder Steve Ballmer walks through the data on immigration, the economy, healthcare, and much more, to help you inform your perspective. Get the numbers, not rhetoric, topic by topic.

✅ Just the Facts: Steve Ballmer and America’s Numbers
https://usafacts.org/just-the-facts/

#steveballmer #USAFacts

Why Steve Ballmer strives to:
✅ expose clear facts about the USA & its govt through USAFACTS.ORG
✅ hold our govt accountable for the numbers it produces
✅ contribute to philanthropic causes that educate citizens & voters

"Fighting disinfo in MAGA era: Ari Melber talks facts & tech with Microsoft Legend, Steve Ballmer" - The Beat, MSNBC
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1cQhnm4K3qA&si=J8WiO4XAtqjbvwwB

#steveballmer #msnbc #usafacts

Microsoft billionaire fights US election disinformation

“Hi, I’m #Steve #Ballmer. I spent 34 years growing Microsoft, 10 years owning the LA Clippers basketball team. I love computers, data and facts.

That’s why I started ⭐️USAFacts,” Ballmer says at the top of the program.

Leading up to election day in November, #USAFacts is rolling out a series of fact-filled educational videoscentered on the US.
The videos are available on YouTube and will be shown as late-night commercials on select TV channels.

Depending on what program you’re tuning into, you’ll come across stats and information about the federal #budget, #immigration, the #environment or #healthcare.

And while Ballmer is leading the program, he says he is not out to change people’s minds.
“We’re trying to arm the American public with the information to do their jobs as citizens,” Ballmer said. “We don’t pick sides.”

The idea behind USAFacts came when Ballmer started helping his wife with his family’s philanthropic efforts and found himself facing the 💥scale and complexity of government data.

The organization’s first project, published in 2017, was what Ballmer considers a version of the 👉10-K financial reports companies are required to compile that illustrates the financial conditions of the company.

The report, now published annually, is called the "Government 10-K"
– named after the yearly financial report that public companies in the United States must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Every year, the organization goes to Washington DC to host a session for lawmakers on its annual report and gives recommendations to lawmakers on collecting data.
“It’s just, here’s how we look at our company. Here’s our numbers about how we’re doing. It has to be presented with context,” Ballmer said.

Ballmer said USAFacts was non-partisan and only used information published by local, state and federal governments as a way to gain people’s trust in its data.
Information from other sources, like university research or thinktanks, is not included.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/steve-ballmer-usafacts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Former Microsoft CEO, LA Clippers owner & founder of USAFacts Steve Ballmer joins Jon Stewart for a live conversation following the Trump-Harris debate to discuss why he launched his website, #USAFacts, as a nonpartisan resource for people to understand the scope, context & efficacy of the government’s spending.

"Steve Ballmer - Making Government Spending Transparent with USAFacts" | The Daily Show - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX3nOo7BCQ

#DailyShow #SteveBallmer #JonStewart #Microsoft #msftadvocate

Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I. - This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O. - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/podcasts/hardfork-musk-trump-election.html #presidentialelectionof2024 #scienceandtechnology #x(formerlytwitter) #losangelesclippers #ballmerstevena #harriskamalad #trumpdonaldj #openailabs #usafacts #muskelon #waymo

Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I. - This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O. - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/podcasts/hardfork-musk-trump-election.html #presidentialelectionof2024 #scienceandtechnology #x(formerlytwitter) #losangelesclippers #ballmerstevena #harriskamalad #trumpdonaldj #openailabs #usafacts #muskelon #waymo

Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I. - This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O. - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/podcasts/hardfork-musk-trump-election.html #presidentialelectionof2024 #scienceandtechnology #x(formerlytwitter) #losangelesclippers #ballmerstevena #harriskamalad #trumpdonaldj #openailabs #usafacts #muskelon #waymo

Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I. - This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O. - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/podcasts/hardfork-musk-trump-election.html #presidentialelectionof2024 #scienceandtechnology #x(formerlytwitter) #losangelesclippers #ballmerstevena #harriskamalad #trumpdonaldj #openailabs #usafacts #muskelon #waymo

Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I. - This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O. - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/podcasts/hardfork-musk-trump-election.html #presidentialelectionof2024 #scienceandtechnology #x(formerlytwitter) #losangelesclippers #ballmerstevena #harriskamalad #trumpdonaldj #openailabs #usafacts #muskelon #waymo

Fakten statt Floskeln: Steve Ballmers #USAFacts-Projekt liefert unparteiische Daten zur politischen und wirtschaftlichen Realität der USA. Seine neue Videoserie soll Wähler noch besser informieren. https://winfuture.de/news,144236.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Steve Ballmer’s USAFacts releases new stats on American crime, jobs, population and more - (USAFacts chart)

USAFacts this week released its yearly roundup up of U.S. sta... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/steve-ballmers-usafacts-releases-new-stats-on-american-crime-jobs-population-and-more/ #stateoftheunion #impactseries #usafacts