David Brancaccio

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2,652 appearances 78 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 5 May

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Marketplace All-in-One · Fallout from the Supreme Court's tariff decision · 23 Feb 2026 podcast

Companies and consumers will have to figure out if they'll sue to get money back for money paid on tariffs deemed illegal.

And U.S.

trading partners around the world are also recalculating strategy.

The BBC's Felicity Hanna has more.

Immigrants to the United States of all economic classes collectively put more into the United States than they cost.

Fewer immigrants, according to this new analysis, hurt the fiscal health of the U.S.

The source of this new study is notable, the Cato Institute, a think tank that often aligns with conservative economic policies but has a consistently libertarian focus.

A co-author of the study is David Beer, director of immigration studies at Cato.

Good morning.

Broad brush, the presence of immigrants helps ease the federal budget deficit?

Now, immigrants is a huge class of people who moved here.

What happens if the question is do undocumented immigrants, people in the US without permission illegally, does that calculation hold up?

And unless a person is being paid, quote, under the table, they may be paying into those systems.

David, help me understand.

There was a I remember a line in the report that if immigrant workers were earning lower wages per hour, they can still pay more in taxes than the average person.

Now, I mean, I saw that line in the paper.

Even by this conservative analysis, immigrants may have already prevented a fiscal crisis.

Can we move that forward?

Can we extrapolate from that finding that an America with stricter immigration policies, the ones now in place, does that suggest the fiscal health of the country will get worse?

David Beer, Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute.

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