Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesOpinion

Congress Should Include Robust Government-wide Guardrails in 2027 Appropriations to Halt Unprecedented Interference by Trump Administration

The brazenness and impact of the Trump Administration’s unprecedented interference with federal funding have grown in recent ...
Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesOpinion

Higher Marketplace Premiums Take a Toll on Enrollment and on Marketplace Enrollees

Congressional Republicans failed to extend premium tax credit (PTC) enhancements at the end of 2025, and now the harm of ...
Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesOpinion

Congress Should Support Rental Assistance in 2027 to Prevent Increased Homelessness and Evictions

A House subcommittee is expected to release next week its 2027 housing funding bill, giving Congress an opportunity to ...
Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesOpinion

Fast Tracking More Cuts Will Hurt Families Who Are Already Struggling to Make Ends Meet

Deliberate policy choices by President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have increased costs people pay to meet their ...
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Build Back Better Legislation Would Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap

Over 2 million uninsured adults with incomes below the poverty line, most who live in the South and are people of color, don’t have a pathway to health coverage, because their states have refused to ...
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Health Insurance Costs Will Rise Steeply if Premium Tax Credit Improvements Expire

Improvements to premium tax credits, enacted in the American Rescue Plan and extended by the Inflation Reduction Act, have helped millions of people afford health coverage in the Affordable Care Act ...
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As Budgets Tighten, Some State Lawmakers Reconsider Costly Private School Vouchers

Every child should have access to a quality K-12 education that prepares them for long-term opportunities and success. But lawmakers in some states have jeopardized equitable access to education by ...
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Post-Megabill Drop in SNAP Participation Is Steepest in Decades

Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fell by more than 3 million people (8 percent) nationwide between July 2025 and January 2026. The drop followed the enactment of H ...
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In Case You Missed It...

This week at CBPP, we focused on health, state budgets, food assistance, poverty and inequality, and social security.
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How State and Local WIC Agencies Use Nutrition Services and Administration Funding

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, popularly known as WIC, serves more than 6 million low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding individuals; infants; ...
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Growing Share of Infants Participating in WIC Are Breastfed

The number and share of infant participants in the WIC program who are breastfed have risen since 2022, a promising indicator that more parents are choosing to breastfeed, infants are breastfeeding ...
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It’s Time to End Corporate Tax Avoidance in California by Closing the Water’s Edge Loophole

Testimony of Don Griswold, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, to the California Assembly Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation in Favor of AB 1790 (Connolly) Thank you for the ...