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Igel

(37,235 posts)
7. We had that debate months ago.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 11:43 AM
Saturday

When SCOTUS said that there were limits to how much the administrative agencies could change or reinterpret to implement statute.

They didn't say that the literal, most restrictive construction of the text of a statute was an absolute limit, but they did sharply restrict the range of what could be read into the text.

It's like with SNAP--what's covered and who's covered has wiggle room in the text, so Biden could increase the range of who's covered (but Congress still had to fund it). And many on DU argued that SCOTUS' restriction was utterly wrong, mostly because the availability hierarchy we had built into us at the time said that administrative interpretations are just good. (That wiggle room may yet be reduced given the '25 SCOTUS docket. Stay tuned.)

As for whether some of the tax credits may cover certain categories of residents by list, must cover them (by list), or simply say that the they apply where the IRS says they do (with some sort of restrictions) ... Dunno. But the statutes' text is public, might be worth taking a gander at it.

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