Claim: “President Trump has banned welfare for illegal immigrants which will save $57.4 billion a year.”
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: remains, it would cost the average American $450 a year, offsetting about half the tax [cut] benefit." President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal was one factor in the increase in gas and oil prices, along with quotas established by OPEC in the face of an economy growing worldwide. In July 27, 2018 remarks about the economy, Trump stated, "More than 10 million additional Americans had been added to food stamps, past years. But we've turned it all around." SNAP participation had been steadily declining since December 2012. HUD reported in December 2017 that homelessness increased 0.7% in 2017,

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: climate change in part contributed to the fires. Trump has repeatedly characterized illegal immigrants as criminals, although multiple studies have found they have lower crime and incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Prior to taking office, Trump promised to deport the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States and to build a wall along the Mexico–United States border. In January 2017, Trump signed an executive order directing the DHS Secretary to begin work on a wall. An internal DHS report estimated that Trump's wall would cost $21.6 billion and take 3.5 years to build (far higher than the Trump

title: Mexico–United States barrier
text: and pay for itself." Trump also touted a report he had seen on Fox News that cited a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, in which it claimed that a wall along the Mexican border could save taxpayers $64 billion by reducing crime and welfare costs for undocumented immigrants over the next 10 years. Some dispute this, claiming the wall and maintenance would cost more than predicted and that illegal immigrants would just find another way into the nation. In August 2017, while speaking at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump stated he will close down the U.S. government

title: Immigration policy of Donald Trump
text: estimates that deporting every undocumented immigrant would cause a slump of $381.5 billion to $623.2 billion in private sector output, amounting to roughly a loss of 2% of U.S. GDP. Doug Holtz-Eakin, the group's president, has said that the mass deportation of 11 million people would "harm the economy in ways it would normally not be harmed". In June 2016, Trump stated on Twitter that "I have never liked the media term 'mass deportation'—but we must enforce the laws of the land!" Later in June, Trump stated that he would not characterize his immigration policies as including "mass deportations". However,

title: Federation for American Immigration Reform
text: country represented." With the election of President Trump, some of the United States' "most ardent" advocates for reducing immigration levels—such as FAIR, the Center for Immigration Studies, and NumbersUSA—have an opportunity "to dramatically reduce legal immigration". These three groups enjoy "formidable grassroots support" across the United States. As of the end 2016, FAIR's annual budget reached $11.2 million. In May 2017, Julie Kirchner, FAIR’s executive director since 2005, was named as ombudsman of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman reporting to the Department of Homeland Security. A 2017 FAIR report claimed that undocumented immigrants in the United States were approximately

title: Kris Kobach
text: on immigration. He proposed a halt to what he said was $23 billion in annual remittances by Mexican nationals illegally living in the U.S. unless Mexico makes a one-time $5–10 billion payment for Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. On August 1, 2018, Kobach's office was ordered by federal judge Julie Robinson to pay $26,000 in attorney fees to the Kansas American civil Liberties Union for court costs in a proof-of-citizenship case which he lost. In September 2014, Democrat Chad Taylor announced he was withdrawing from that year's U.S. Senate race in Kansas. Kobach ruled that he had improperly

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: been in place in 2005 (the one recent year in which his tax returns were leaked), he would have saved $31 million in taxes from the alternative minimum tax cut alone. If the most recent estimate of the value of Trump's assets is correct, the repeal of the estate tax could save his family about $1.1 billion. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin argued that the corporate income tax cut will benefit workers the most; however, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, Congressional Budget Office and many economists estimated that owners of capital would benefit vastly more than workers. According to "The

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: $13.7 trillion (CBO current policy baseline), a $4.3 trillion or 46% increase. The economic policy positions of United States President Donald Trump prior to his election had elements from across the political spectrum. However, once in office his actions indicated a politically rightward shift towards more conservative economic policies. Prior to election, then-candidate Trump proposed sizable income tax cuts and deregulation consistent with conservative (Republican Party) policies, along with significant infrastructure investment and status-quo protection for entitlements for the elderly, typically considered liberal (Democratic Party) policies. His anti-globalization policies of trade protectionism and immigration reduction cross party lines. This combination

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: had been in place in 2005 (the one recent year in which his tax returns were leaked), he would have saved $31 million in taxes from the alternative minimum tax cut alone. If the most recent estimate of the value of Trump's assets is correct, the repeal of the estate tax could save his family about $1.1 billion. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin argued that the corporate income tax cut will benefit workers the most; however, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation and Congressional Budget Office estimate that owners of capital benefit vastly more than workers. Economist Paul Krugman summarized what

title: Time to Get Tough
text: it will harm employment opportunities. Trump describes a plan for four tiers of income taxes, with the top bracket being taxed at fifteen percent on income above US$ one million per year, and abolishing corporate tax in the United States. With regards to Social Security, Trump recommends lifting the retirement age and spending the savings elsewhere. Other chapters express support for increased military spending and criticism of free trade, and call for curtailing immigration to the United States. He criticizes illegal immigration to the United States specifically, saying it causes economic harm to American citizens. On foreign policy issues, Trump

title: Immigration policy of Donald Trump
text: visa diversity lottery. A study by Penn Wharton economists found that the legislation would by 2027 "reduce GDP by 0.7 percent relative to current law, and reduce jobs by 1.3 million. By 2040, GDP will be about 2 percent lower and jobs will fall by 4.6 million. Despite changes to population size, jobs and GDP, there is very little change to per capita GDP, increasing slightly in the short run and then eventually falling." Kathryn Steinle was killed in July 2015 by an illegal immigrant, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who had multiple convictions and had been previously deported on five occasions.

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: Ryan have advocated for spending cuts to help finance the tax cuts, while the President Trump's 2018 budget includes $2.1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years to Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies, food stamps, Social Security disability insurance, Supplemental security income, and cash welfare (TANF). A "FiveThirtyEight" average of November 2017 surveys showed that 32% of voters approved of the legislation while 46% opposed it. This made the 2017 tax plan less popular than any tax proposal since 1981, including the tax increases of 1990 and 1993. Trump has claimed the tax cuts on the wealthy and corporations would

title: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013
text: bill had been passed, U.S. wages would have been 0.1 percent lower in 2023 and 0.5 percent higher in 2033 than under current law. The Social Security Administration said that it would help add $276 billion in revenue over the next 10 years while costing only $33 billion. The legislation would make deep and broad changes to existing U.S. immigration law. S.744 would create a program to help the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States gain legal status in conjunction with efforts to secure the border. It would also make changes to the existing system of legal

title: Prison–industrial complex
text: of private prison profits. Both companies donated heavily to the Trump election campaign in 2016. Funding of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is increasing as about a total of $4.27 billion was allotted to the INS in the 2000 fiscal budget. This is 8% more than in the 1999 fiscal budget. This expansion, experts claim, has been too rapid and thus has led to an increased chance on the part of faculty for negligence and abuse. Lucas Guttengag, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project stated that, "immigrants awaiting administrative hearings are being detained in conditions that would be

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: GDP would rise from around 77% GDP in 2017 to as much as 105% GDP by 2028. The CBO reported that lower-income groups would incur net costs under the tax plan, either paying higher taxes or receiving fewer government benefits: those under $20,000 by 2019; those under $40,000 from 2021–2025; and those under $75,000 in 2027 and beyond. Up to 13 million fewer persons would be covered by health insurance relative to prior law, due to repealing the individual mandate to have health insurance. As a result, critics argued the tax bill unfairly benefited higher-income taxpayers and corporations at the

title: Opinion polling on the Donald Trump administration
text: During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump called for the suspension of immigration to the United States from seven "terror prone" countries; in January 2017, he signed an executive order partially implementing that policy and halving annual U.S. refugee intake from 100,000 to 50,000. In January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order that would block federal funding to "sanctuary cities". Donald Trump has said he plans to dramatically reduce United States funding to the United Nations and UN programs. In January 2017, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. A Pew Research Center global poll

title: Immigration reform in the United States
text: the state "$26.4 billion in economic activity, $11.7 billion in gross state product and approximately 140,024 jobs" if all illegal immigrants are removed from the state. The Donald Trump administration quickly turned to action in altering the H-1B visa to better suit the American economy. Previously, the 85,000 visas that were available only to highly skilled foreigners were assigned randomly from a pool of applicants; it worked very similarly to a lottery system. With Trump's new executive order in place, those 85,000 visas are granted only to the most valuable people that either have master's degrees or earn the highest

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: pay for the border wall. In January 2018, the administration proposed spending $18 billion over the next 10 years on the wall, more than half of the $33 billion spending blueprint for border security. Trump's plan would reduce funding for border surveillance, radar technology, patrol boats and customs agents; experts and officials say that these are more effective at curbing illegal immigration and preventing terrorism and smuggling than a border wall. In February 2017, Trump stated, "According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here

title: The America We Deserve
text: seem to reflect confidence and generosity. But our current laxness toward illegal immigration shows a recklessness and disregard for those who live here legally." Trump also proposed a 14.25% tax on individuals and trusts valued at more than $10 million. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump frequently cited the book on the campaign trail as proof that he predicted the September 11 attacks that occurred in 2001. This is because he mentioned Osama Bin Laden in the book; however, Trump did not predict that Bin Laden would commit a terrorist attack against the United States in the book. Trump also

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: (those with $100 million or more in economic impact) from FY2007 through FY2016, a period that encompasses all but the last four months of the Obama administration. According to OMB calculations, in constant 2015 dollars the overall economic benefits far outweighed the economic costs, with aggregate benefits ranging from $302 to $930 billion, while aggregate costs ranged from $88 to $128 billion. Overall, the lowest estimate of regulatory benefits exceeded the highest estimate of regulatory costs by a ratio of 2.3X. Among the department/agency regulations that were evaluated, the largest ratio of lowest estimated benefits to highest estimated costs was