The main purpose of this budget resolution is to set up a partisan process to fund ICE/CBP w/o reforms.
But it also includes non-binding fiscal targets illustrating that Senate GOP has no plan to improve fiscal trajectory other than big unspecified cuts to public services.🧵
It is unconscionable to leave ICE and CBP’s violence unchecked and allow them to continue their reign of terror. Our government should hold them accountable.
Yesterday, Senate Republicans kicked off a partisan process intended to fund ICE & CBP without any crucial reforms or guardrails to end the campaign of lawlessness and violence that the Administration, ICE, and CBP have inflicted across our nation. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
Excellent report from my colleague, @AnnaKBailey, highlighting how the Trump Administration’s homelessness policies will make it harder to secure housing & have intensified suffering for unhoused people, including people who are immigrants.
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🚨SNAP tracker update. Unfortunately the number of low-income people receiving SNAP food assistance continues to fall.
🚨SNAP tracker update: We just added March data for the 16 states reporting so far. The # of low-income people receiving SNAP continues to fall.
Largest drops since H.R. 1 was enacted in July:
AZ: -51%
TN: -15%
VA: -13%
SC & TX: -11%
CT, IN, KS, PA: -10%
More than 5 million parents and young children in WIC would see fruit and vegetable benefits cut under the FY2027 House Agriculture appropriations bill, which takes away over $141 million in benefits and risks turning families away from the program. www.cbpp.org/blog/house-a...
Here's how 2.5 million people lost access to SNAP within just 5 months. Spoiler alert - its not because of a strong economy or they found jobs.
The House agriculture appropriations bill would break a 30-year bipartisan commitment to fully fund WIC. It cuts benefits for almost 5.4 million participants & risks eligible families being turned away for the first time in decades. See the impact in your state in the link below.
For 30 years, Congress has fully funded #WIC to ensure all eligible families who apply can receive full benefits. The House agriculture appropriations bill would break this promise: it would underfund WIC & cut benefits for WIC participants in every state. www.cbpp.org/blog/house-a...
Make no mistake: CBO continues to estimate huge cuts to #Medicaid from OBBBA, last year’s reconciliation bill, despite Trump Admin officials’ false claims otherwise. In fact, CBO projects that 7 million ppl will lose #ACA Medicaid expansion coverage from 2025 to 2032.
I’m thrilled to welcome Larry LaDell Robertson to the @CenterOnBudget as our new Chief People and Culture Officer! www.cbpp.org/press/press-...
Why has the number of people receiving SNAP been plummeting? @tyjonescox.bsky.social explains:
"This can't be explained by a sweeping rise in incomes or improving economic conditions. We need to call this steep decline what it actually is: not evidence of progress, but deep, harmful cuts."
More than 6 million people rely on WIC, where Nutrition Services and Administration funding covers the costs of delivering services like nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and managing the program through state and local agencies. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
How did 2.5 million people lose access to SNAP within just 5 months? CBPP's @tyjonescox.bsky.social explains the major provisions of the harmful Republican megabill (H.R. 1) that are already harming communities across the country, and will threaten access to food assistance for many more.
Infants and parents in the WIC program are increasingly breastfeeding, with the number of infants who are breastfed rising by 34.2% between the first quarter of 2022 and the last quarter of 2025 as the program expands access to nutrition and support. www.cbpp.org/blog/growing...
This week at @centeronbudget.bsky.social, we focused on food assistance, health, federal taxes, and the economy. In case you missed it, read more: www.cbpp.org/blog/in-case...
Key point - "Congress must work to eventually repeal the untenable cost shift altogether. Payment accuracy is an important measure of SNAP’s performance, but a program isn’t successful if it’s highly accurate while failing to reach those who need it."
And Arizona just posted new data for March: since H.R. 1 passed in July, more than half of the Arizonans receiving SNAP have lost food assistance.
Not because the economy improved. Not because they didn't qualify. Because of how the state is responding to these federal cuts.
Additional analysis on Rep. McDonald-Rivet’s #EITC bill for low-income working fams w/ kids <4 – the expansion would reduce the # of kids age 0-3 experiencing poverty by more than 400k kids – a dramatic 19.5% reduction, @centeronbudget.bsky.social estimates for 2026.
Low-income families are losing food assistance, with 2.5 million fewer people receiving SNAP in just five months, and Congress should delay a new cost shift that could lead to even deeper cuts. www.cbpp.org/blog/congres...
H.R. 1’s unprecedented cost shift to states is already driving far deeper SNAP cuts than anticipated as states scramble to reduce costs. Congress must delay this unfunded mandate for all states before even more struggling families lose food assistance.
Two states I want to highlight on #TaxDay making their tax codes more just and equitable! 1) WA state passed a millionaire's tax and will expand the Working Families Tax Credit & fund childcare and free school lunch for kids budgetandpolicy.org/schmudget/mi...
This #TaxDay, my colleague @WhitneyJemison outlines the harmful tax & budget choices some states have made, including cutting property taxes that fund local services & expanding costly school vouchers, as well as the brighter path other states are taking:
My colleague @claireheyison.bsky.social unpacks a new analysis showing that marketplace enrollees are paying more and getting less following the expiration of PTC enhancements and implementation of parts of the republican megabill.
Following the expiration of PTC enhancements, #ACA marketplace plan selections dropped by 1.2 million during the 2026 open enrollment period. A new analysis suggests that millions more will drop coverage over the year as enrollees confront higher monthly premiums. www.wakely.com/blog/who-pai...
This #TaxDay, states are at the forefront of critical decisions over what kind of nation we want to be: one that works for the wealthy & well-connected at everyone else's expense, or one where prosperity & opportunity are broadly shared, as my colleague @whitneyjemison.bsky.social details:
The #EITC is an important tool for helping low- & moderate-income working fams w/ kids afford the basics. Rep. McDonald-Rivet has intro’d a valuable bill expanding the EITC that @centeronbudget.bsky.social estimates would help >5M low-inc kids under age 4. mcdonaldrivet.house.gov/media/press-...
About 5.4 million parents and children in WIC could see fruit and vegetable benefits cut to just $10–13 per month under President Trump’s FY27 budget, reducing support to about 19% of recommended intake for children. Read more via @scrippsnews.bsky.social: www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the...
Happy #TaxDay! While millions of Americans file their returns today, statehouses across the country are making decisions that will shape who pays, who gains, & who gets left behind for years to come. And right now, states are headed in two VERY different directions. Some context:
