After initially refusing to sign into law a bill aimed at providing relief to U.S. taxpayers hit by the economic ramifications of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, saying US$600 per taxpayer  (£438, £482) wasn't enough, President Trump finally gave it the go-ahead on Sunday evening (Dec.27).

With two months to go until the end of his term, President Trump is considering an executive action that would end the current U.S. policy of conferring American citizenship on all babies born in the U.S., according to a Washington media report, which cited as its source a top presidential aide.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows did in fact receive a letter sent to him last month by the Republicans Overseas that urged him to call on President Trump to use his presidential authority to issue an "executive order" aimed at fixing certain tax issues expat Americans are currently struggling with, and is "very interested in doing something to end double taxation [for expats] legislatively after the election", according to RO chief executive and vice president Solomon Yue.

In what many American expats will hope could at last bring expat issues onto the agenda in the final weeks of the U.S. presidential campaign, the Republicans Overseas has asked White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to call on President Trump to use his authority, as president, to begin to make some of the changes these expats have long been calling for, but which Congress has failed to address.

Two lawsuits were filed in the U.S. on Friday against President Trump and other key U.S. government officials over the denial to certain American taxpayers of their right to receive CARES Act "Economic Impact Payments" because they are married to non-American citizens who, though taxpayers, don't have Social Security numbers. 

Mark Meadows, a Republican Party stalwart who introduced a bill aimed at repealing key elements of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in September, 2016, has been named to replace Mick Mulvaney as chief of staff in President Trump's administration. 

In the final days of 2017, President Trump signed into law a major overhaul of the U.S. tax code, the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that contained major, life-changing elements for many American expat small business owners in particular.

 President Donald Trump didn’t show up to an event held yesterday on the Île aux Cygnes (Isle of Swans) in Paris, to which he had been invited – but then, he didn’t make it to a scheduled wreath-laying ceremony to honor French and American World War I dead at a French cemetery  the day before, either. 

So-called "accidental Americans" and organizations that represent their interests on Tuesday were welcoming a vow by President Trump that he plans to seek to  terminate the automatic right to U.S. citizenship for children born in the United States to non-citizens.