My latest: a partial catalogue of the laws the Trump Administration is breaking with its fiscal and regulatory actions. I will have another paper shortly on the (also) numerous laws it is breaking with its personnel actions. cbpp.org/research/feder…

Just to underscore this point: we're talking about taking food away from kids in low-income families to pay for tax cuts for wealthy estates that have never paid - and never will pay - income tax on most of their value.

$880 billion of Medicaid funding is enough to provide health coverage to over ten million people

Trickle up economics.

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Want to help people engage in the workforce? -Expand CTC & EITC -Help them meet basic needs -Fund training -Lift earnings & asset limits in SSI -Support collective bargaining rights Don't create red tape-laden req's that undermine stability & don't help people maintain jobs.

My latest on how the pending budget bill likely will make food assistance completely unavailable in some states, resulting in a massive resurgence of hunger and making SNAP politically unsustainable nationally. thehill.com/opinion/financ…

example 43,587,943 of the value of investments in the arts and humanities:

What about every other state’s antiquated systems???

The Freedom Caucus is mad that 800,000 kids would be at risk of having their food benefits cut dramatically under the Senate-passed bill's unprecedented expansion of SNAP's harsh & ineffective work requirement to parents. They're mad because they think that number is *too low.*

“Here’s a flashlight,” say the people who just cut off the electricity

NEW: Millions of Americans trying to get Medicaid could soon have to navigate byzantine state systems to prove they have jobs. See how Georgia’s system has played out. Renuka Rayasam + Sam Whitehead report. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/g…

block-granting programs that help people is bad in the past, present, and future cbpp.org/research/feder…

I was pretty chuffed by this callout in The Economist. But Betsey was less sure, suggesting that perhaps the roles of full-time economics professor and amateur comedian ought to be separate. In any other era, I might agree. But today, they're closely tied. economist.com/culture/2025/0…

The tradeoff at the heart of the flawed GOP megabill: cutting programs that help people afford groceries and health care in order to cut taxes for households making over $500k.

here's an implementation timeline for many (bad) provisions in this bill, including tax code as well as changes to SNAP, Medicaid, ACA marketplace coverage, and climate programs: cbpp.org/research/feder…

well, cbpp.org/research/feder…

The Administration has undermined the bipartisan 2025 funding deal by withholding funds, using a partisan rescission bill to cancel funding agreed to on a bipartisan basis, and *remarkably* claiming unilateral authority to hold funds & allow them to expire.