The Federal Budget is a moral document outlining what we as a nation choose to invest in, and these investments will affect individuals and communities across the country. The Coalition on Human Needs believes that these investments should focus on priorities that bring about shared and broad prosperity such as investing in education, health care, housing, financial security, and tax justice.
To help advocates navigate this topic and stay up to date on the latest developments, the Coalition on Human Needs has created this resource library. This library will have official documents, research and analysis, fact sheets, and actions you and your supporters can take to advocate for a responsible federal budget that invests in human needs.
With this information at your fingertips, we hope to empower advocates to develop effective messaging, and stay informed about the latest policy developments. Whether advocating for increased funding for a specific program or pushing for broader changes to the budget process, hopefully this resource library has information that you can use. Want something added to this page? Contact Leo Nguyen (lnguyen@chn.org)
FY2027 Appropriations Resources from CHN Members
- Coalition on Human Needs: Stopping Attacks on Human Needs Funding and Local Communities, Letter from over 500 Organizations in Support of Increased Allocation for the FY27 Labor-HHS-Education Bill, Nearly 300 Organizations Urge Congress to Reject $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, A Human Needs Call to Make Our Nation More Secure, Put human needs first, not attacks on our immigrant neighbors and wasteful Pentagon spending (on President’s budget request), Human Needs Advocates Tell Congress to Halt DHS Expansion (compilation of CHN member statements, actions, and other resources), Threats to Basic Needs Programs: Looming Budget Battles and the President’s Proposed Cuts. webinar recording, and see our Events and Webinars (calendar .ics file) page for tentative budget timelines and other events
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- CHN Action: Tell Congress: Reject Trump’s attacks on housing and homeless assistance programs, Trump wants to eliminate heating and cooling assistance that keeps families safe during extreme weather. Take action now!, and Tell Congress to reject the $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Republican 2027 Funding Bills Fall Far Short of What Is Needed to Help Families, Support Core Services , Trump Budget Fails to Offer Solutions, Raises Risk of Hasty, Harmful Cuts, Congress Should Include Robust Government-wide Guardrails in 2027 Appropriations to Halt Unprecedented Interference by Trump Administration and Congress Should Support Rental Assistance in 2027 to Prevent Increased Homelessness and Evictions
- Clean Budget Coalition: Appropriators Must Ensure Trump Complies with Fiscal Guardrails, Dozens of Groups Tell Congress and 226 Groups to Congress: Reject Poison Pill Riders in FY27 Appropriations
- Council on Education Opportunity: COE Rejects Proposal to Eliminate Federal TRIO Programs in FY 2027 Budget and House Appropriations Committee Strengthens Protections for TRIO Grant Competitions in FY27 LHHS Bill
- Families USA: President Trump’s 2027 Budget Proposes Even More Steep Cuts to Health Care and Public Health
- First Focus: Fact Sheet: President’s Budget Would Take Billions From Kids
- Food Research and Action Center: FRAC Analysis of President Trump’s FY 27 Budget: Implications for Food Security and Economic Stability, 343 National, State, and Community-Based Organizations Call on Congress to Protect and Strengthen WIC and Urge Your Members of Congress to Modernize and Fully Fund WIC
- Friends Committee on National Legislation: Faith Communities Urge Congress to Oppose the $1.15 Trillion Pentagon Budget
- Groundwork: Trump Wages War on Working Families to Fund $500 Billion Pentagon Boost
- National Education Association: NEA response to Trump administration’s proposed 2027 budget
- National Energy Assistance Directors Association: Heating oil costs expected to jump 50% this winter as global diesel prices surge, Winter Heating Costs Projected to Jump 8.7 Percent, Deepening the Nation’s Energy Affordability Crisis, and President’s FY 2027 Budget Eliminates Federal Funding for LIHEAP
- National Low-Income Housing Coalition: NLIHC’s Analysis of the House Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Spending Bill for HUD Programs, FY27 Budget Chart for Selected Federal Housing Programs, House Appropriations THUD Subcommittee Holds Markup on FY27 Spending Bill for HUD Programs, Senate Releases Text of Continuing Resolution Funding Federal Programs Through December 11 and Delaying Implementation of Harmful OMB Proposal, and Statement from NLIHC President and CEO Renee M. Willis on Trump Administration’s FY27 Budget Request,
- National Priorities Project: Trade-Offs: Your Money, Your Choices
- National WIC Association: National WIC Association Urges Congress to Reject WIC Cuts Proposed by House Subcommittee, National Organizations Speak Out Against Trump’s Proposed Cuts to WIC’s Fruit and Vegetable Benefit, and Pass the MODERN WIC Act/21st Century WIC Act in Appropriations!
- National Women’s Law Center: Warning Signs: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2025, in The 74: With 400K Children on Childcare Assistance Waitlists, Families Are Left Scrambling
- NETWORK Lobby: Affordability Breaking Point: The Housing Crisis Crushes Many American Dreams
- Public Citizen: Trump’s Budget Proposal is a Moral Obscenity
- The Census Project: Census Bureau Receives Flexibility in Senate Continuing Resolution
- Zero to Three: President’s 2027 Budget Proposal Fails To Invest in Babies and Their Families, National and state organization sign-on letter to Congress on Children’s Mental Health (May 2026), and Tell Congress to Invest in Babies
Other Appropriations Resources
- CRS: Appropriations Status Table: FY2027
- CDP: Message Testing on the Budget and Congress
- Democracy Forward: Democracy 2025 Federal Grants Hub
- Protect Democracy: OpenOMB Apportionment Tracker and Apportionment Anomalies
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