Average income tax refund by filing year (JPMorgan Asset Management)Posted on 11/20/2025 10:04:16 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Since Day One, President Donald J. Trump has been laser-focused on delivering for the forgotten men and women of this country. While reversing four years of open borders, high taxes, and weak leadership isn’t instantaneous, the early results are undeniable — and they’re getting bigger every week.
From reclaiming spots for American students on college campuses to the largest tax-refund season in history on the horizon, here is some good news you may have missed:
🧑🎓 New foreign student enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities is down by 17% over last year: “American universities have suffered one of the sharpest ever declines in foreign enrollments in the face of tough policies from President Donald Trump, with the number of new international students falling 17 percent this year.”
💰 Tax refunds in 2026 are projected to be the largest ever: “Tax filers could expect an extra $1,000 bump to their tax refund next year, in what could be a record-breaking tax refund season. In total, the working families tax cuts will give American taxpayers $191 billion in net new tax relief… For the 2026 tax filing season, taxpayers are expected to take home an additional $91 billion in refunds and keep an additional $30 billion in their paychecks from reduced withholdings.”
Average income tax refund by filing year (JPMorgan Asset Management)
📚 Public schools are seeing a dramatic drop in immigrant students: “From Miami to San Diego, schools around the U.S. are seeing big drops in enrollment of students from immigrant families. In some cases, parents have been deported or voluntarily returned to their home countries, driven out by President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown… In many school systems, the biggest factor is that far fewer families are coming from other countries. As fewer people cross the U.S. border, administrators in small towns and big cities alike are reporting fewer newcomer students than usual.”
🦃 Prices for the Thanksgiving meal are down over last year: “Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for your friends and family will cost less than last year… The centerpiece on most Thanksgiving tables — the turkey — dramatically decreased in price, which helped bring down the overall cost of dinner. The average price for a 16-pound frozen turkey is $21.50. That is $1.34 per pound, down more than 16% from last year.”
Cost of Thanksgiving dinner shows decline (American Farm Bureau Federation)
📉 The trade deficit nosedived in the most recent data: “The US trade deficit shrank in August as imports declined by the most in four months, official data showed Wednesday after a lengthy delay due to a government shutdown. The goods and services trade gap narrowed almost 24% from the prior month…”
👥 The number of foreign-born immigrants in the country has plummeted: “…the trend had been upward in the preceding four years. However, since January 2025 the trend has been in the other direction, declining nearly 2.23 million since the start of this year. This is a huge and statistically significant decline, indicating something has fundamentally changed. This is by far the largest six-month decline that has ever occurred within the same year.”
Foreign-born population in the U.S. (Center for Immigration Studies)
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Eggs have gone from $8/doz to 2/doz.
Cost of buying a home?
Health insurance premiums?
A total of 4 corporate executives have been convicted and incarcerated for hiring illegal aliens.
DOGE has saved the taxpayers $214 billion dollars (10.7% of the goal) as of October 4th. (Although DOGE.gov has promised weekly updates, the last update was on October 4)
Essentially, your attitude is exhibit A why so many Trump voters will stay home during the midterms. Because if they bring up the kitchen table issues that matter to them most, you will gaslight and dismiss them into oblivion. Very swampy.
And should the Dems take back Congress even the wins you are praising can reversed in weeks.
This!
Truth. As Megyn Kelly says, Republicans like to lose.
Pearl clutching psy ops isn’t the greatest assignment. They try their best
:)
However, Trump's policy/position on H1-B visas satisfies corporations at the expense of American workers. The so-called H1-B reform that centers around a $1000 fee for H1-B does not apply to the current 650,000 H1-B holders and for new applicants, the 'reform' will allow thousands more 'new' H1-B workers who will not pay the $1000 fee due to exemptions the 'reform' provides. H1-B reform is a joke! If our government cared at all about American workers - it will end all work visa programs. Corporate greed/lobbyists trump (no pun intended) the needs of the American worker.
Also, Trump has a policy/position that will allow 600,000 CCP students into our colleges and universities. What's the rationale? 'The schools will suffer financially without these students.' What a joke!
Yes, Trump has done some good things but his policies are a mix of make Americans great and make American corporations/oligarchs and anti-American schools great.
The Titanic is sinking and those running the ship are rearranging deck chairs. We are $37 Trillion in debt. The number of useless and bloated departments, agencies and institutions we have are unimaginable.
More than anyone, I hold Congress and the Judiciary in contempt.
We still have 600K CCP spies at our colleges.
No, the exact opposite with occur because they know, despite the best effort of trolls like you, that President Trump is doing everything he can to deliver on his promises and look out for their best interests.
You will not succeed in your efforts to divide MAHA!
Your viewpoint is extremely distorted!
He hasn’t delivered “some” good things, he has delivered on more good thins, by far, in 10 months than any other Presint on 4 or 8 years.
Your anti-Trump boas is showing!
Thanks for pointing out how the trolls roll. Always with the negative vibe.
My numbers are taken directly from CBP.GOV “smart wall map” which was instituted pursuant to Executive Order 14005 and updated on November 20, 2025.
Specifically:
San Diego Sector, 8.3 miles
Starr and Hidalgo, Sector, 11.7 miles
Santa Cruz and Cochise Counties, 27 miles
Grand Total: 47 miles. *Unless you think that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is lying or misrepresenting the facts
Your use of a trite saying is a joke, “Rearranging the deck chairs,” not funny and not appropriate.
Who are you? Why the angry, irrational rant?
Are you paying Union Dues?
| Barrier Type | Executing Agency | Planned (not yet awarded) | Awarded (Design Phase) | Under Construction | Completed | Total | End State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Smart Wall (New) | CBP | 476 | 105 | 37.1 | 10.4 | 629 | 1,419 miles* |
| Department of War | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | ||
| Non-Federal | - | - | - | 82 | 82 | ||
| Primary Smart Wall (Replacement) | CBP | 75 | 15 | 24.1 | 0.6 | 115 | |
| Department of War | - | - | 13.9 | 1.1 | 15 | ||
| Waterborne Barrier System | CBP | 458 | 80 | - | - | 538 | 538 miles |
| Secondary Border Wall | CBP | 596 | 29 | 4.3 | 2.9 | 632 | 708 miles |
* Approximately 535 miles of the U.S. - Mexico border without barrier will be covered by detection technology due to unfavorable terrain or remoteness of location.
CBP is also deploying approximately 549 miles of technology in locations with previously constructed barrier.
Count up the miles in the Completed column. It comes to 92.4
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