FY26 Appropriations and Administration Attacks on Immigrant Communities

• CHN: Rapid Response Webinar on FY 2026 Appropriations and More: What’s on the Table, and How to Make Our Voices Heard
• Congressional Research Service: Appropriations Status Table: FY2026
• Appropriations Committees: Full Legislative Text of FY 26 Labor/HHS/Ed, T-HUD, DOD, and DHS Bills.
  • DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026 Bill Summary
  • HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026 Bill Summary
  • LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026 Bill Summary
  • TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026 Bill Summary
  • House Appropriations Democrats: Appropriations Committees Release Three-Bill FY26 Funding Package: Labor, HHS, Education; Defense; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Appropriations Committees Release Homeland Security Funding Bill.
• NLIHC: NLIHC’s Analysis of Final FY26 Appropriations Bill for HUD Programs, Advocates and Congressional Champions Secure Vital Funding Increase and Policy Provisions in Final FY26 HUD Funding Bill, and FY26 Budget Chart for Selected Federal Housing Programs
• NAEH: Proof Point: How the Appropriations Bill is a Sign of Our Collective Power
• GCPI: Abundance for Who? Housing Access and Affordability in High-Growth Metropolitan Areas and Poverty Is a Policy Choice
• NEADA: Winter Heating Costs Expected to Jump 9.2%
• NNEDV: VAWA and Related Program Appropriations Chart
• NWA: National WIC Association Applauds Full Funding for WIC in Bipartisan Funding Agreement, Urges Swift Passage to Ensure Stability for Families and WIC Workforce
• CEF: FY 2026 education funding – CEF table for selected education programs, 2024-2026 and FY 2026 Education Funding Charts
  CLASP: FY26 Funding for CCDBG Offers Important Increase Amidst Challenging Times for Children and Families
• CWLA: FY 2026 Budget Chart, tracking a number of programs across child welfare, education, juvenile justice, and mental and behavioral health funding streams
• Meals on Wheels: Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs Appropriations FY18-26
• NCOA: Current Federal Budget and Appropriations for Aging Services Programs
• National Skills Coalition: FY26 Funding Chart Comparisons
• RESULTS: Final FY26 funding levels for housing, health, and education are a win for our advocacy – and communities around the world
• CBPP: Introduction to the Federal Budget Process

Select Resources on FY 2026 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations

• CHN: CHN to Congress: oppose any funding, including another CR, for ICE — and support real reforms, and Stop Funding Violence: Congress Must Halt DHS Expansion (UPDATED compilation of CHN member statements, actions, and other resources — only some below)
• CHN Action: Tell Congress: Stop funding ICE and CBP, rein in the abuses with real reforms.
• NILC: Not a dollar for DHS Resource-Hub, Justice & Accountability in DHS Appropriations and Tell Your Members of Congress: No More Tax Dollars for ICE & CBP
• CTAN: Stop Terrorizing our Kids: How Immigration Agents are Harming Children and What Policymakers Can Do to Stop It
• First Focus Campaign for Children: Fund Children, Not ICE and MESSAGE: Reject DHS funding bill until children are protected
• CDF: CDF to Congress: No More Funding for DHS Brutality
• NPP: Congress Doubled ICE & CBP Budgets and Cut Legal Immigration

Attacks on Nutrition and Health Programs

• CHN: House Members Heard Their Constituents, and Voted to Keep Health Care Affordable – The Senate Must Act Now  and Health Care and Food: How the Trump Administration is Continuing to Hurt People by Raising the Cost of Necessities to Unaffordable Levels – And How to Fight Back
• FRAC: Congress Fails to Stop Incoming SNAP Cost Shift, Havoc and Harm Heading to States, Families, and Farmers, SNAP Cost-Shifts Will Increase Hunger, Strain State Budgets, and Deepen Economic Risk, Table: Economic Strain and New SNAP Cost-Shifts Under H.R. 1 Across All States, and Cuts to SNAP Threaten the Child Nutrition Programs  
• CBPP: Congressional Delay of SNAP Cost Shift Urgently Needed to Protect Food Assistance for Low-Income Families   
• CHN Action: Demand Congress reverse SNAP cuts made in the Big Brutal Budget
• National Governors Association: NGA Joins Coalition Letter Outlining SNAP Recommendations, States Sound Alarm over Ongoing SNAP Threats, Local, State Coalition Presses Congress for Urgent SNAP Fix, and State Leadership: Governors Work to Sustain Food Assistance
• NUL etc: REPORT: Trump and Republican Health Care Cuts Are Deepening Racial Health Inequities
• The Arc: Protecting People With Disabilities Within New Medicaid Work Requirements (PL 119-21)
• NHCHC: Letter to States: H.R. 1 Implementation Recommendations to Ease Burden on People Experiencing Homelessness
• CBPP: People Who Rely on the ACA Marketplaces Face Mounting Affordability Challenges and Congress Should Reject Administration Action Further Weakening Corporate Minimum Tax
• EPI: Failing to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits is an attack on working-class Black families and major metro areas
• CAG: The Affordable Care Act and Affordability on the Line: What Congressional Inaction Means for Care
• CSSP: Consistent Health Coverage and Care: The Foundation for Health and Wellbeing
• Sen. Sanders: Ranking Member Bernie Sanders Statement on Bipartisan Health Care Deal in New Minibus Funding Agreement

Other related resources

• CLASP: The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers
• CBPP: A Record of Historic Harm in the First Year of Trump’s Second Term and Bluesky thread: Sharon Parrott on the first year President Trump’s second term
• NWLC: Year One of Trump’s Second Term: An Assault on Gender Justice and Democracy, Trump’s War on Working Women
• NPWF: Indigenous and Black women are especially suffering in the Trump economy 
• Oxfam: Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Protecting freedom from billionaire power
• Gather Voices. The Gather Voices platform is available for PBN members to use. GV helps to easily collect those stories through videos that can be used for press outreach and on various channels. Find tutorials on how to use Gather Voices here. Access the platform and find story prompts here. Precision will also be holding standing office hours for those interested in Gather Voices.

General Budget and Appropriations resources

CHN: CHN/partner events joint calendar (let us know if you have a DC-based event or public webinar you’d like us to include here!) and CHN budget and tax toolkit for local groups. Other resources from the 2025 budget reconciliation debate:

• The Real Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Why the Coalition on Human Needs Urges House Members to Reject H.R. 1, the Budget Reconciliation Bill
• The Coalition on Human Needs Opposes the House Budget Package
• The Coalition on Human Needs Opposes the Senate Budget Package
• House Budget Proposal Hurts Millions of People to Pay for Still More Breaks for the Rich

First Focus on Children:

• What proposed federal budget cuts and policy changes will cost children
• Making America Healthy Again for Children: A Comprehensive Agenda and Path to Follow
• Privatizing Public School Funds: Threats to Equity, Access, and Educational Quality | First Focus on Children
• New York Times via First Focus: In a Shift, More Republicans Want Government Investment in Children

CBPP: President Trump, Congressional Republican Proposals Would Shift Large Costs to States, Inflict Widespread Harm, includes FY 2024 State Expenditures, by Source, in millions with percentage of federal funds as a total by state

• See also NASBO: State Expenditure Report 2024 Federal Funds as Percentage of State Budget 

CBPP: Federal Policy Debates in 2025 Carry High Stakes, Much at Stake for People and Communities in Looming Federal Policy Debates, and Taking Away People’s Health Coverage and Food Assistance Will Increase Hardship, Not Employment

Yale Budget Lab: Illustrative Distributional Effects of Policies Consistent with the House Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2025

Groundwork: Polling: Republican Plan to Gut Vital Programs, Shower Ultra-Wealthy With Tax Breaks is Unpopular With Voters

Child Care for Every Family Network:

• 2025 Congressional Recess Power Building Toolkit
• All polling, reports, and research on child care from approximately the last two years collected in one place
• Messaging Guide for Child Care (c3 version) (c4 version) (Child Care for Every Family Network)

CHN: Our Path Forward: Advocates nationwide join in CHN’s webinar on how to protect people despite threats from the new Administration and Congress and December 12 webinar recording: Budget Rules in the New Congress  

CAP: How Does Budget Reconciliation Work? 

Indivisible, the CPC Center, and NWLC: The Basics of Budget Reconciliation 

Public Citizen: After Agency Slashings, Lawmakers Oppose Steep Pentagon Spending Hike Paid For By Human Needs Cuts, see video: Senator Markey Hosts Press Conference on Cuts to Essential Services Despite Bloated Pentagon Budget

National Priorities Project: Senate Republicans Would Increase Spending for Pentagon and Deportations at the Expense of Solving Our Worst Problems

CBPP: House Republican Budget Would Mean Higher Costs, Less Help for Families, More Tax Windfalls for Wealthy, Senate Republicans’ Opaque Budget Resolution Points in Troubling Direction  House Budget Resolution – CBPP Graphics – Dropbox, Ty Cox Jones thread about Chair Arrington’s budget resolution seeking deep cuts to SNAP, and Chuck Marr thread about how paying for tax cuts for rich people

Impacts of the OBBBA (2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill)

• CHN: Power and Conscience: the Struggle is Not Over
• CHN Action: Congress has passed a recklessly dangerous bill (thanks or spanks email action)
• Partnership for Basic Needs: OBBA Impacts By State
• National Immigration Law Center: The Anti-Immigrant Policies in Trump’s Final “Big Beautiful Bill,” Explained
• PIF: Provisions on Immigrant Access to Public Benefits in the Final Reconciliation Package
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
  • Republican Bill Will Raise Costs, Poverty, and Hunger, Take Health Coverage Away From Millions
• Center on American Progress:
  • The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare
  • 10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
  • What Trump’s Anti-Environment One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Your Wallet, Health, and Safety
• EPI: The radical Republican budget bill steals from the poor to give tax cuts to the rich and Forget ‘no tax on tips’—increasing the minimum wage would deliver dramatically larger raises for millions more workers without letting employers off the hook
• Groundwork: Nine Ways the Senate GOP Budget Bill Will Raise Costs on Working Families
• First Focus on Children: H.R. 1 imperils the nation’s children and challenges our values, advocate says and Three Ways that the Reconciliation Bill’s School Voucher Program Hurts Public Schools
• National Women’s Law Center: The Budget Reconciliation Bill Harms Families and Early Educators, Talking Points on Child Care Related Tax Credits in Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill”, and SNAP Time Limits Harm Women, LGBTQIA+ People, and Families
• FRAC: The Far-Reaching Harmful Impacts of the Reconciliation Bill — on Families, Older Adults, Immigrants, and State Budgets and House Pushes Through Senate’s Harmful Budget Reconciliation Bill, Ignores Warnings From National, State, and Community Organizations
• Feeding America: Analysis of Reconciliation Legislation “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, H.R. 1
• MAZON etc in The Hill: Senate Republicans are hiding shameful downgrades to veterans’ SNAP benefits
• CWLA, CHN, etc: letter signed by over 170 organizations opposing the removal of SNAP time limit exemptions
• National WIC Association: Impact of the OBBA on WIC
• Inequality.org: 10 Terrible Ways the GOP Budget Causes Harm
• ITEP (Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy): Federal Tax Debate 2025, 10 Crazy Comparisons Showing How Much Trump and Congress Just Cut Taxes for the Rich, GOP Megabill Breaks America’s Promise to Future Generations, There Were Far Cheaper and Fairer Options Than the Trump Megabill, Top 1% to Receive $1 Trillion Tax Cut from Trump Megabill Over the Next Decade, and Megabill Takes Cap Off Unprecedented Private School Voucher Tax Credit, Potentially Raising Cost by Tens of Billions Relative to Earlier Version
• ATF: ‘Big Ugly Tax Scam’ Act Analysis
• CPSP: Children Left Behind by the H.R.1 Child Tax Credit
• The 19^th: The child tax credit is changing. Here’s what it means for your family.
• FamiliesUSA: One Big Beautiful Bill Act— Provisions Related to Medicare, Medicaid & Affordable Care Act and  Actions by Trump and Congress are Leading to Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums in 2026
• KFF: Health Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill and Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill
• Yale Budget Lab: Tax Provisions in the Reconciliation Bill: Combined Distributional Impacts, New Tax Breaks in the Reconciliation Bill Would Reverse Much of the TCJA’s Progress Toward Horizontal Equity, and Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House and Senate Reconciliation Bills (covered in the New York Times: Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package)

Protecting immigrant communities

• Protecting Immigrant Families
  • 681 Organizations Send Letter Urging Congress to Protect Families
  • Immigrants and Safety Net Programs in Federal Budget Reconciliation
  • Stripping Health Coverage Eligibility from Lawfully Present Immigrants
  • Letter from nearly 700 organizations urging lawmakers to reject efforts to restrict immigrant families’ access to health care and social services
  • Child Tax Credit – SSN Requirements
  • Medicaid FMAP Penalty for Covering Immigrants with State-Only Funds
  • Public Charge in Reconciliation
  • Restricting DACA Recipients from ACA Subsidies
  • SNAP in Reconciliation
• CBPP: Republican Budget Reconciliation Options Would Harm People Who Are Immigrants and Their Families
• NILC: Standing Up For Immigrants’ Health and Wellbeing
• NEA: National Education Association Shares Guidance as Immigration Changes Create Uncertainty
• NILC: Budget Reconciliation and Immigration Policy: Potential Areas of Impact for 2025 and Existing Restrictions on Immigrants’ Eligibility for Federal Assistance Leave Little Left to Cut 
• Children Thrive Action Network: Protecting Immigrant Families Facing Deportation toolkit
• Immigration Hub: Primer – Immigration and Reconciliation
• NILC: Standing Up For Immigrants’ Health and Wellbeing and Know Your Rights: Is It Safe to Apply for Health Insurance or Seek Health Care?