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Fact: The Memphis Safe Task Force, comprising local, state, and federal agencies, has been in Memphis since September 2025 under orders from President Donald Trump and Governor Bill Lee.
Statement: ACLU says videos of Hunter Demster's August 26 arrest show a continuing campaign of harassment by the Memphis Safe Task Force.
Current Congressional Budget Office scoring rules allow a bill to be scored as balanced even if it offsets spending in an early year with revenue in a much later year.
Parker Sheppard stated that as of September 2026, U.S. deficits are running at 6 percent of GDP.
Approximately 70 percent of the U.S. federal budget consists of mandatory spending.
The entire projected increase in the U.S. deficit is attributed to Social Security and Medicare.
The Congressional Budget Office's legislative scores do not show the debt-service costs incurred from borrowing.
According to a National Bureau of Economic Research paper, 43% of workers who did not change jobs and 37% of all workers studied experienced real wage reductions.
Congress passed the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act in 1982, Social Security reform in 1983, and tax reform in 1986.
U.S. federal deficits nearly tripled in the early 1980s.
According to a National Bureau of Economic Research paper, while aggregate real wages have recovered, the purchasing power lost during the high-inflation period was not regained.
Kevin Warsh is the new chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve recently raised interest rates by 0.25 percent, to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent.
A National Bureau of Economic Research paper analyzed payroll records for approximately 16 million American workers between 2021 and 2024.
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in the past month and 3.4% over the last 12 months as of September 2026.
The Federal Reserve has a 2 percent annual inflation target.
Inflation peaked at 9 percent in 2022.
Bryan Riley of the National Taxpayers Union stated that Congress should reclaim its constitutional authority over tariffs rather than delegating more of it.
Cato Institute research fellow Clark Packard wrote that the sanctions bill does not specify the data source for identifying the 'top five' purchasers of Russian energy.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in the Supreme Court case that overruled President Trump's tariffs.