An applicant for U.S. citizenship holds an American flag during a naturalization ceremony at the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. From October 2015 through June 2016, 718,000 legal permanent residents applied for citizenship, up 8 percent compared to the same period leading up to the 2012 presidential election, according to federal data. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg An applicant for citizenship waves a flag at a naturalization ceremony in September 2016. (Photo: David Paul Morris/BB)

President Donald Trump's administration is keeping quiet about how it thinks immigration officials should classify moderate-income legal immigrants who use Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits to pay for health coverage.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has left any discussion of ACA premium tax credit subsidies out of a major new batch of draft regulations that could affect legal visa holders who use government benefits. The department posted the draft “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” regulations on its website Friday.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.