How these documents compare
Analysis onlyFY 2027 request and opposition response
Government document · Opposition document
Same fiscal year, different instruments: a presidential request and a minority-party critique. No complete matched opposition budget was verified; do not calculate party-to-party fiscal differences from these documents.
Government and alternative plans
Source documents for reference. A party's costing is its own estimate unless identified as independent. Different years, definitions and government levels are not directly comparable. These documents do not automatically change the simulator.
Presidential budget request · FY 2027 · published April 2026The administration’s proposed fiscal priorities. A request is not enacted appropriations, and Congress can change it.
Government supplemental budget update · FY 2026–27 updates; mandatory-program projections through FY 2031This statutory supplement updates the April presidential request for legislative, economic and technical changes. It includes an administration request for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding and projects $4.958 trillion of FY 2027 mandatory-program outlays in Table S-1. It is a partial federal update, not enacted appropriations or a complete general-government forecast; it does not supply a like-for-like replacement for the landing-page debt, deficit and spending ratios.
Congressional budget resolution · FY 2026; levels through FY 2035Legislative text and supporting material for the budget resolution. Budget resolutions and spending laws are different instruments.
Opposition analysis collection · 2026 / FY 2027 materialsMinority-party analyses and critiques of the administration and congressional plans. These reports are not labelled as a complete costed alternative budget.
Opposition analysis · FY 2027A dated minority-party response to the FY 2027 presidential request. The committee index confirms its title and date; the full page could not be retrieved in this review. It is not a complete alternative budget or a 2026 election platform.
Pension eligibility and payments
Selected scheme verifiedSocial Security retirement insurance
- Eligibility age
- 67 full age (born 1960+); early 62
- Payment basis
- Earnings-based; no flat national rate
Full retirement age varies by birth year. Early claims reduce payments; delaying can increase them up to age 70. For first eligibility in 2026, the monthly base formula uses 90% of the first US$1,286 of average indexed monthly earnings, 32% through US$7,749 and 15% above that. This is not a guaranteed payment.
Reference information only. These rules and payments do not change the simulator’s fiscal model or calculate an individual pension entitlement.
Tax starting points
- Income tax
- 10–37% federal + state/local
- Corporation tax
- 21% federal + state
- VAT / sales tax
- No federal VAT · state/local sales tax
- Tariffs
- Rates depend on the product, origin and trade agreement.
Federal ordinary-income marginal rates, retained from 2025 under the 2025 legislation. State/local income taxes may apply. The 21% corporation rate is for C corporations; alternative minimum tax and pass-through rules differ.
Income tax source · Corporation tax source · WTO tariff schedules