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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)
If you have question or want to know more about how you can get involved in advocating for a better budget please contact Dominique Espinoza (despinoza@chn.org)
Protecting Human Needs in Budget Reconciliation
- CHN: FY 2025 Budget Resource Library and (updated!) State and Local Data Resource Library
- House Budget Committee via Politico: Spending Reform Outline (1 page menu) and via Punchbowl: House GOP reconciliation options (50 pages)
- CHN: budget and tax toolkit for local groups (Winter 2025) and recording of our January 16 Federal Connection call on how to strategically engage members of Congress
- CHN: CHN/partner events joint calendar which includes the tentative House GOP budget timeline (let us know if you have a DC-based event or public webinar you’d like us to include here!)
- House Freedom Caucus: HFC’s “218” Reconciliation Proposal and Politico: Freedom Caucus pushes two-step reconciliation proposal, countering Johnson’s plan
- CHN December 12 webinar recording: Budget Rules in the New Congress
- Indivisible, the CPC Center, and NWLC: The Basics of Budget Reconciliation
- Caring Across Generations webinar 1/30 at 3:00pm ET: What’s at Stake and How We Win – Protecting Medicaid, Supporting Immigrant Communities, and Putting Families Before Billionaires
- Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Center webinar 1/30 at 3:00pm ET: The Bottom Line: What the Tax Debate Means for You
Statements and Analysis from CHN Members and Partners
Funding Human Needs
- Congressional Research Service: Appropriations Status Table
- CHN: Budget and tax toolkit for local groups (Winter 2025)
- CHN December 12 webinar recording: Budget Rules in the New Congress
- CHN Jan. 7 webinar recording: Our Path Forward: Practical ways to protect people from harm despite threats from the new Administration and Congress
- CHN: Selected FY25 House-Senate Approps table
- CHN: Trump and Vance oppose the spending and disaster relief bill, on negotiations on the Continuing Resolution (CR) in late 2024
- CBPP: By Abandoning Bipartisan Agreement, House Republicans Force Low-Income Victims of SNAP Benefit Theft to Pay $1.5 Billion Price
- CHN: Human needs advocates gather in U.S. Capitol to oppose House spending cuts
- CHN: Letter to to Oppose Deeper House Cuts in Domestic and International Appropriations
- CHN: Don’t cut the programs that meet our needs, about the letter from 1,106 organizations in support non-defense discretionary funding
- Video of July 23 event hosted by Rosa DeLauro featuring CHN’s Deborah Weinstein
- NPWF: House GOP Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Bills Would Set Women Back Decades
- First Focus on Children: Children’s Budget Book 2024 and Child Development Research Hub
- FCNL: FY25 People’s Unfunded Priorities List
- Child Welfare League of America: Budget Chart Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2025
- CBPP: Rising Homelessness Highlights Need to Invest in Proven Solutions, Reject Policies That Worsen Homelessness and Housing Instability
- NLIHC: updated FY25 Budget Chart for Selected Federal Housing Programs budget chart
- NWLC and NLIHC: Housing is Foundational to the Lives of Women, LGBTQIA+ People, and Families
- Church World Service: FY 2025 CWS Federal Housing Priorities and FY 2025 CWS Appropriations Requests
- SchoolHouse Connection: Federal Programs Benefiting Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness Appropriations Chart
- NCOA: Fiscal Year 2025 Aging Services Funding: Sharp Contrast Between Senate and House Proposals
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Leadership Conference Sign-on Letter on CJS Funding for FY25
- NNEDV: Urge Congress to Support the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act (VOCA)
- Reentry Working Group: Reentry Working Group Appropriations Chart
- CHN: 78 National Organizations and 86 State Organizations urge lawmakers to protect IRS funding
- Senate Appropriations Committee FSGG markup, FY25 FSGG Senate Bill Summary, FY25 FSGG Bill Text, FY25 FSGG Senate Report, FY25 FSGG Adopted Amendments
- Americans for Tax Fairness: 85 National, State, and Local Organizations urge the Senate Appropriations Committee to protect IRS funding
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- CHN (online action): Tell Congress: Reject IRS funding cuts and protect Direct File
- Senate Appropriations Committee Labor/HHS/Ed markup, FY25 Labor/HHS/Ed Senate Bill Summary, FY25 LHHS Bill Text, FY25 LHHS Senate Report, FY25 LHHS Adopted Amendments
- Senate Appropriations Committee Ag markup, FY25 Ag-FDA Senate Bill Summary, FY25 Ag-FDA Bill, FY25 Ag-FDA Report, and Press Release: Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Subcommittee Allocations, Legislative Branch, Ag-FDA, and Military Construction-VA Bills
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- National WIC Association: Senate Appropriators Advance Bipartisan Bill to Fully Fund WIC in FY25
- Senate Appropriations Committee CJS markup, FY25 CJS Senate Bill Summary, FY25 CJS Senate Bill, FY25 CJS Senate Report, FY25 CJS Adopted Amendments, and Press Release: Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment, State and Foreign Operations, and Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bills
- Senate Appropriations Committee T-HUD markup, FY25 THUD Senate Bill Summary, FY25 THUD Senate Bill, FY25 THUD Senate Report, FY25 THUD Adopted Amendments, and Press Release: Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment, State and Foreign Operations, and Transportation-HUD Appropriations Bills
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- NLIHC: Senate Appropriations Committee Releases and Passes FY25 Budget Proposing 10% Increase to THUD Funding, also see NLIHC’s full analysis
- National Women’s Law Center: Cutting Rental Assistance is Harmful for Women, LGBTQ+ People, and Families
- CHN (online action): Tell Congress to invest in housing programs
- House Appropriations Committee FSGG markup, Subcommittee markup, Bill Report, Full Committee Mark, Full Committee Mark Summary, and Press Release: Committee Approves FY25 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act
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- Americans for Tax Fairness: July 2024 House Floor FY25 SIGN ON LETTER: Oppose House GOP proposed cuts to IRS funding and Direct File, accepting signatures (organizations only, not individuals) with no deadline now
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- Americans for Tax Fairness sheet: Keep The IRS Adequately Funded To Catch Rich Tax Cheats
- House Appropriations Committee Ag markup, Subcommittee markup, Bill Report, Full Committee Mark, Full Committee Mark Summary, and Press Release: Committee Approves FY25 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
- House Appropriations Committee CJS markup, Subcommittee markup, Bill Report, Full Committee Mark, Full Committee Mark Summary, and Amendments.
- House Appropriations Committee Labor/HHS/Ed markup, Subcommittee markup, Bill Report, Full Committee Mark, and Full Committee Mark Summary.
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- CHN (online action): Fight back against funding cuts for education
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- Rep. DeLauro’s fact sheets on impact of House bill cuts to education, including with state-by-state numbers
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- CHN (online action): Tell Congress: Invest in nutritional programs for seniors
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- Congressional Progressive Caucus Center (CPCC) and Economic Policy Institute (EPI): Proposed Cuts to Worker Protection Agencies & What They Mean
- House Appropriations Committee T-HUD markup, Subcommittee markup, Bill Report, Full Committee Mark, and Full Committee Mark Summary.
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- NLIHC: House Appropriations Committee Passes FY25 Budget Proposal Cutting Key Housing Investments. For more details, see NLIHC’s full analysis .
- The White House: Letter Regarding Critical Supplemental Funding Needs
- CHN: Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship, August 2, 2024 The compare and contrast Edition.
- CHN: Human Needs Watch: Tracking Hardship, July 12, 2024 The (mis)appropriations Edition
Support for and Analysis of President Biden’s FY 2025 Budget Proposal
- The Biden Budget: A Responsible Roadmap to Meet the Demands of Our Time, Coalition on Human Needs, March 12, 2024
- Feeding America, Analysis of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, March 2024
VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) and Related Programs Appropriations through the Years, National Network to End Domestic Violence, March 2024 - Child Welfare League of America: FY 2025 Budget statement, March 27, 2024
- More for Them, Less for Us: Corporations that Pay Their Executives More than Uncle Sam, Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness, March 13, 2024
- Revenue-Raising Policies in President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Plan, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, March 12, 2024
- Feeding America Applauds Continued Commitment to Increasing Food Security in Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget, March 12, 2024
- FY 2025 Budget President Biden Proposed Would Help America Thrive, MomsRising, March 12, 2024
- Analyzing President Biden’s 2025 Budget, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 11, 2024
- Biden Administration Releases FY25 Budget Request, National Low Income Housing Coalition, March 11, 2024
- Biden’s Proposed FY25 Budget Demonstrates Continued Commitment to WIC, Congress Must Follow Suit, National WIC Association, March 11, 2024
Support for Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion:
To see statements from CHN Members and Allies in support of the proposed Child Tax Credit expansion, click here or scroll down.
Visit here for CHN’s digital toolkit on Child Tax Credit.
- With child poverty on the rise, 2025 offers a key opportunity to expand the Child Tax Credit, Children’s HealthWatch.
- The Senate Should Join the House to Improve the Child Tax Credit, Coalition on Human Needs.
- House-Passed Bipartisan Tax Bill’s Child Tax Credit Expansion Would Help 16 Million Children in Low-Income Families, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
- Moms Cheer House Passage of Bill to Expand the Child Tax Credit, Urge Senate to Pass it Right Away, MomsRising.
- Caring Across Generations Responds to New Child Tax Credit
- About 16 Million Children in Low-Income Families Would Gain in First Year of Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
- The Proposal to Expand the Child Tax Credit Would Help Millions of Children in Poverty, Center for American Progress.
- CLASP Urges Bipartisan Tax Proposal to Address Child Poverty and Racial Inequality, Center for Law and Social Policy.
- Children’s Health Watch Statement on Child Tax Credit Agreement
- Statement from Code for America on the New Bipartisan Proposal to Enhance the Child Tax Credit
- CHN Supports the CTC Improvements in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, Coalition on Human Needs.
- Community Change Action Statement on Child Tax Credit Proposal
- Proposed Tax Deal is a Critical Step for Prioritizing Working Families and Congress Should Pass Now, Economic Security Project.
- Child Tax Credit “Important Step Forward,” First Focus Campaign for Children.
- Food Research & Action Center Applauds New Proposal for Child Tax Credit that Would Lift 400,000 Children Out of Poverty.
- 16 Million Children Will Benefit from the Child Tax Credit Expansion, Lifting 500,000 Children out of Poverty, Golden State Opportunity.