CHN Urges the Senate to Reject Partisan Continuing Resolution that Cuts Funding for Human Needs
March 12, 2025
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Human Needs Watch: Why SNAP Cuts Hurt People and Must Not Pay for Tax Breaks for the Wealthy- Words and Pictures
March 17, 2025
The House-passed budget instructs the Agriculture Committee to cut spending by $230 billion over 10 years. SNAP, known as food stamps, would face harsh cuts. This would hurt families and children across the nation in a time of increasing needs.
Turning IRS Agents to Deportation Will Reduce Public Revenues
March 17, 2025
The Trump Administration’s plan to turn IRS agents into deportation agents will result in lower tax collections in addition to the harm done to the families and communities directly affected by deportations.
We Need Medicaid More Than Billionaires Need Tax Cuts
March 14, 2025
Republicans in Congress want to gut Medicaid, denying life-saving health care for regular families to cut taxes for billionaires.
CHN Joins Civil Rights and Health Equity Groups to Release Report Showing that Extreme Medicaid Cuts in the House-passed Budget Will Harm Millions of People
March 13, 2025
When people go without health care and go without nutritious food because they do not receive Medicaid or SNAP, their health and life chances suffer.
CHN: Debt Ceiling and Budget Deal Inflicts High Cost to Avoid Default
June 28, 2023
With little time to spare to avert an economic crisis, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law a bill to suspend the nation’s debt ceiling, enabling continued borrowing so the federal government can continue to meet all its obligations. The Fiscal Responsibility Act (H.R. 3746) passed the House (314-117)…
CHN: FY24 Appropriations Bills Begin to Move through House and Senate Committees; Highlights/Lowlights from Select Bills
June 28, 2023
Fiscal Year 2024 spending bills have begun moving through House and Senate Appropriations Committees, but they are not without controversy. Read on for more information on spending allocations and highlights and lowlights from select bills on the move. Subcommittee allocations: The Fiscal Responsibility Act set the total for appropriations, divided…
CHN: House Tax Package Benefits the Rich over Americans with Low Incomes
June 28, 2023
The House Ways and Means Committee passed along party lines a package of three bills in June that would mostly benefit the richest one percent of Americans and foreign investors, while doing little for Americans with low incomes. Most of the provisions in these bills are business tax cuts; however,…
