The Trump Administration is seeking to claw back spending that was approved for programs including those serving immigrants, refugees, minority groups, and children.

SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.

Listen to the podcast about The Great Betrayal: Cutting America’s Most Vulnerable From SNAP on Share Our Strength.

At a moment when the cuts enacted in last year’s harmful Republican reconciliation law have begun to take away food assistance and health coverage from millions of people, today’s Census data are a re...

At a moment when the cuts enacted in last year’s harmful Republican reconciliation law have begun...

A child hunger crisis is unfolding in plain sight: it’s very likely that more than 1.5 million children nationwide have lost food assistance in the wake of unprecedented SNAP cuts in last year’s...

SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4 million people (nearly 10 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026, based on the latest month of data.

Ensuring that federal funding reaches eligible recipients, while preventing and addressing factual instances of fraud, is a critical part of good governance that has typically garnered bipartisan...

The Senate voted on Tuesday to launch a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the longest partial government shutdown in history. The 52-46 vote was the first step in a budg...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) announced today that Dr. Larry LaDell Robertson has joined the organization as Chief People and Culture Officer, following a national search....

SNAP Participation Dropping Following Enactment of Harmful Republican MegabillPercentage change in SNAP participants between and Source: CBPP calculations from USDA and state program dataCenter...

The budget lacks any commitment, let alone policy ideas, to address families’ struggles to afford housing, health care, food, utilities, and child care.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) announced today the promotion of two exceptional leaders to new roles: Shannon Buckingham as Executive Vice President for Communications and External....

The Trump Administration’s drastic and unprecedented effort to freeze funding for families’ child care and other essential needs in five states led by Democratic governors is a fundamental threat to e...

The Trump administration has ordered a review of federal funding sent to more than a dozen Democratic-led states, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...

Today’s government funding shutdown is fundamentally different than prior funding fights because the Administration is acting outside the law. Any funding agreement must put a stop to this pattern of ...

Republicans are claiming their short-term continuing resolution is business as usual, but nothing about this moment is normal.

The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

Members of Congress should not be expected to cast their votes for compromise bipartisan legislation only to have it undone through unlawful or partisan actions.

Policy advances over the last 25 years have helped millions of people secure health coverage and lifted millions of people above the poverty line. However, if left unchanged, July’s Republican megabil...

Wally Adeyemo, former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and distinguished visiting fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, has joined the...

This three-part agenda — legislation, executive action, and tariffs — will hurt low- and moderate-income people, families, and communities of all races and Black people, families, and communities espe...

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 CBPP...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) announced today that Nicole Greenidge-Hoskins has joined the organization as Executive Vice President, Legal Department and Administration following.....

Following a series of middle-of-the-night backroom deals, and less than an hour after the final language was unveiled, Senate Republicans voted to pass a bill that would raise food and health care cos...

The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman John Boozman (R-AR) issued the following statement on the budget...

Their agenda couldn’t be clearer: stripping health care and food assistance away from millions of people and raising families’ costs, breaking their promises to help people on the margins of the econo...