The House may vote this week on a constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to balance its budget. Balanced budget amendments are a highly ill-advised method for addressing ...

McCaffrey, Senior Policy Analyst on the Housing and Income Security team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a ...

Our nation faces serious long-term fiscal challenges. Addressing them will require policymakers to recognize several realities.

Late last night, the House Agriculture Committee voted to advance a deeply flawed farm bill that turns its back on the millions of low-income families struggling to afford groceries in the wake ...

Weaponizing fraud and using it as a pretext to take funds away from states will destabilize their programs and ultimately take health care from people who can least afford it.

About 6 million people will lose SNAP food assistance if BBCE is eliminated — more than 4 million of them, including 1.8 ...

The Trump Administration has radically slashed the federal civilian workforce, sidestepping Congress and causing disruptions, slowdowns, and fragility in a range of critical public services that ...

The Trump Administration and congressional Republicans advanced one of the most radically regressive policy agendas in our nation’s history during the first year of President Trump’s second term. As a ...

The Trump Administration recently claimed that SNAP benefits are not available for November 2025 because SNAP’s “contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” [1] This stands ...

This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, food assistance, health, and income security.On the federal budget, Brendan Duke testified before the Senate Budget ...

The Impoundment Control Act (ICA) was passed to prevent unilateral presidential impoundments, not enable them. The ICA makes clear it does not allow the President to delay funding if authorizing and ...