Summed across four enacted laws, JCT’s scores for the Employee Retention Credit total $77.199B. The National Taxpayer Advocate reports approximately 4.9M cases closed for over $300B in ERC payments through 2025. As of the week ending Aug. 1, 2026, IRS said about 17,300 claims remained. Score and payments are different measures. Source: JCT revenue estimates / National Taxpayer Advocate 2025 Annual Report / IRS.

The federal gasoline tax is 18.4¢ per gallon, a rate set in 1993. Since 2008, more than $275B has been transferred from the general fund to the Highway Trust Fund. CBO projects cumulative shortfalls beginning in 2027 for transit and 2028 for highways. By 2036, the two accounts total a calculated $317.868B shortfall. Source: Congressional Budget Office, Highway Trust Fund Accounts — Baseline Projections, June 2026; The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036; Federal Excise Tax Revenues, August 2026.

Rep. Randy Fine's FEMA graphic lists St. Johns County's Hurricane Nicole and Hurricane Debby management-cost awards at the same $922,321.18. FEMA's records show they are separate projects. Nicole PW 680 is $922,321.18. Debby PW 706 is $164,828.86. The $757,492.32 difference exactly explains why the 14 amounts printed on the graphic add to more than its headline. Fine's $7,696,742.09 headline total is correct. FEMA's records reconcile to it exactly once the Debby line uses FEMA's $164,828.86 figure. Source: FEMA OpenFEMA, Public Assistance Funded Projects Details v2; Public Assistance Grant Award Activities v2.

HHS OIG estimated Medicare improperly paid $15.2M for 134,526 of 186,842 sacroiliac joint injection sessions from Oct. 2023 through Sept. 2024. The $15.2M is an estimated improper-payment amount. That is about $113 per estimated improperly paid session. HHS OIG OAS-25-09-021.

DOGE reported $4B in savings on an Air Force IT modernization contract at more than 187 locations. GAO lists it as not terminated, $0 deobligated, and $3.75B cut from $12.5B total contract value. The arithmetic leaves $8.75B after that reduction. GAO-26-108615, Table 9.

The Navy lost more than 15,000 operational days to attack-submarine maintenance delays and idle time in FY2016-2025. GAO estimated $3.4B in costs to sustain crews and submarines that provided no operational capability. That averages about $340M per year. GAO-26-109256.