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For some reason, my post of this paper seems to have been taken down, so I am reposting it here.

At Health Affairs, along with Ben Ippolito, Matt Fiedler, Jim Capretta, & Bipartisan Policy Center, we detail 4 health care policy areas that could produce substantial savings with minimal adverse impacts: healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Proposed cuts to safety net programs could roll back decades of progress on reducing poverty. Bob Greenstein joins The Brookings Institution’s The Current podcast to explain: brookings.edu/articles/what-…

The commentary shows the CTC changes the House Ways & Means Cmte has released would provide no CTC increase for millions of kids in low-income working families and provide 10 times as much in CTC benefits to families in the top 20% by income as to those in the bottom 20%

The Ways and Means proposals also would deny the CTC to an estimated 4.5 million children who are US citizens or legal permanent residents because one or both of their parents lacks a Social Security Number.

Are Republicans trying to cut Medicaid and SNAP cruel or just out of touch? I spoke with doctors and others around the country who are close to Americans living tough and precarious lives. These cuts make neither moral nor practical sense. My essay washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

(2) On unfair and complex new provisions: taxlawcenter.org/blog/the-house…

(3) On the onerous EITC precertification: taxlawcenter.org/blog/ways-and-…

This is misleading. A major CBO analysis, issued in 2022, found that while TANF work requirements did increase employment, work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP largely failed, producing little or no rise in employment while cutting large number of eligible people adrift

The House Reconciliation Agriculture bill - while cutting and decrying welfare for poor people - reportedly gives big farm agribusinesses their own $60 billion hike in farm subsidies. So more corporate welfare, less individual welfare. Of course.

Here's a good breakdown of the House GOP's farm subsidy expansions. The highest-earning farmers already collect $20 billion annually even in good years, and received another $10 billion bailout a few months ago, with more tariff bailouts coming. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/05/review…

"Our society could decide that police and fire departments will not respond to calls made by individuals who worked less than 80 hours in the prior month, but most would find this repugnant and contrary to the purpose of these services." gift link: nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opi…

Targeting food and health care for the least advantaged is unconscionable — especially in light of how many Republicans involved in this demolition project profess to be devout Christians. “Blessed are the rich” is not among the beatitudes.

I also take issue with the idea that someone who just lost a job or is struggling to find a job should have their access to health care stripped away as well. I really enjoyed this Matt Bruenig op-ed on the topic today: nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opi…

It's hard to overstate how awful the SNAP cuts in this reconciliation bill are 81 percent of recipients live below the poverty line; over a third live below *half* the poverty line. It's the US program best targeted at people in extreme need and the GOP wants 30% cuts.

The House budget is a health care cataclysm for America. 15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of: West Virginia Hawaii New Hampshire Wyoming Vermont DC Alaska North Dakota South Dakota Delaware Rhode Island Montana Maine

Two Rangel accomplishments worth remembering: * He’s personally responsible for non-parents getting the EITC, having fought for that in 1993 * African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a modest but beneficial trade bill he shepherded