House Republicans’ budget reconciliation legislation would cut assistance that helps children in families with low incomes get enough to eat, see a doctor when they are sick, and in other ways meet ...

A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on ...

President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, is a bad idea for several reasons, as noted in a recent ...

List of staff at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent $6.9 trillion, amounting to 24 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to the June 2024 estimates of the Congressional ...

Increasingly, Medicare enrollees receive their benefits through a Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan offered by a private insurer rather than from traditional Medicare, which is a government-run, ...

In an average month in 2024, SNAP helped an average of more than 41 million low-income people in the United States afford a nutritionally adequate diet.

Policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law was skewed to the rich, was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base, and failed to deliver promised economic benefits. A ...

Created in 1972, the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides monthly cash assistance to disabled or older people who have little income and few assets. Like the Old-Age, Survivors, ...

The 2017 tax law increased the maximum value of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) — first enacted to help working families offset the cost of raising children — from $1,000 to $2,000 per child, but ...

House Republicans’ fiscal year 2024 agriculture appropriations bill released yesterday would make harmful policy changes and deep funding cuts to two critical food assistance programs — WIC and SNAP — ...