The Real Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Why the Coalition on Human Needs Urges House Members to Reject H.R. 1, the Budget Reconciliation Bill
July 2, 2025
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Top 1% to Receive $1 Trillion Tax Cut from Trump Megabill Over the Next Decade
July 8, 2025
Blog post by ITEP, a member of CHN
The centerpiece of the tax and spending bill that President Trump signed on July 4 is a significant tax cut for wealthy families, partly tacked onto the national debt and partly paid for with cuts to health care, climate investments, and other public services.
America First? No, Corporations First.
July 8, 2025
Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.
Power and Conscience: the Struggle is Not Over
July 3, 2025
Statement by CHN
Today’s action by Congress, and the tyrannous behavior of the Trump administration, are painful demonstrations that this struggle is not over.
The Real Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Why the Coalition on Human Needs Urges House Members to Reject H.R. 1, the Budget Reconciliation Bill
July 2, 2025
Statement from CHN
The House of Representatives has the chance now to stop the reckless rush to enact this big and brutal piece of legislation.
How many deaths are acceptable to pay for rich people’s tax breaks?
June 23, 2025
The House has passed a budget reconciliation bill, and now the Senate is taking up its version, which it hopes to pass before leaving for the July 4th recess. Health economists at the University of Pennsylvania have estimated that a bill like the House bill would lead to 51,000 preventable…
Slashing Staff Means Less Help for People
April 1, 2025
The Trump Administration wants you to believe that massive cuts in staffing will have no effect on the services people need. The latest blockbuster announcement came from Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who will lay off 10,000 workers, doubling the total terminated, one-quarter of…
Why SNAP Cuts Hurt People and Must Not Pay for Tax Breaks for the Wealthy- Words and Pictures
March 17, 2025
The budget resolution passed by the House of Representatives included instructions to the Agriculture Committee to come up with a plan to cut spending by $230 billion over 10 years. There is no way to do that without taking most or all of this huge figure from the Supplemental Nutrition…
How Much Will We Have to Pay the Ultra-Wealthy?
February 28, 2025
The House of Representatives passed a budget resolution on February 26 that would pay out $4.5 trillion in tax breaks over a decade, with the largest share going to the wealthiest. Who would pay for that? We do – in lost or more expensive health coverage, lost nutrition assistance, higher…
