Protecting Human Needs in Budget Reconciliation 

• House Budget Committee: FY25 Budget resolution and MARKUP NOTICE: House Committee on the Budget (includes video/streams of budget markup)
  • CHN: House Budget Proposal Hurts Millions of People to Pay for Still More Breaks for the Rich
  • CBPP: House Republican Budget Would Mean Higher Costs, Less Help for Families, More Tax Windfalls for Wealthy,  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
  • Families USA: Families USA Statement on House Republicans’ Budget Resolution Signaling their Intent for Major Medicaid Cuts/
  • Peoples Action: Make Billionaires Pay (Taxes)
• Senate Budget Committee: Hearings (includes video/streams of budget markup)
  • CBPP: Senate Republicans’ Opaque Budget Resolution Points in Troubling Direction
• Congressional Progressive Caucus Center: February 12, 2025: House vs. Senate: Comparing GOP Plans to Advance Trump’s Agenda
• 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
• First Focus: What proposed federal budget cuts and policy changes will cost children and Making America Healthy Again for Children: A Comprehensive Agenda and Path to Follow
• CHN: budget and tax toolkit for local groups (Winter 2025)  
• CHN: CHN/partner events joint calendar which includes the tentative GOP budget timeline (let us know if you have a DC-based event or public webinar you’d like us to include here!) 
• Hart Research: Key Issues in Healthcare- Where Voters Stand, presentation slides, Health Care Message Guidance (February 2025), and Protect Our Care Polling Memo
• Groundwork: New Polling: Republican Plan to Gut Vital Programs, Shower Ultra-Wealthy With Tax Breaks is Unpopular With Voters
• 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 
• 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 
• Immigration Hub: Primer – Immigration and Reconciliation
• First Focus: What proposed federal budget cuts and policy changes will cost children
• CWLA: Maintain the Social Services Block Grant
• National WIC Association: Policy Brief: Federal Budget Proposals Could Threaten WIC Access

Protecting Health/Medicaid

• Families USA: Medicaid Matters: To People, Our Economy and the Health Care System and On the First Full Day of President Trump’s Second Term, More Than 425 Organizations Urge Him to Protect Medicaid Coverage
• The Arc: Calling All Advocates: Medicaid Advocacy in 2025
• Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities: Protect Medicaid and Essential Programs 2025
• Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund: Hands Off Our Medicaid online resource
• Justice in Aging: Cutting Medicaid Harms Older Adults No Matter How It’s Sliced, Medicaid Work Requirements: Red Tape That Would Cut Health Coverage for Older Adults, and How Medicaid Funding Caps Would Harm Older Adults
• Medicaid in Schools Coalition: Letter from 66 organizations opposing attempts in budget reconciliation that could cap or cut Medicaid funding
• CLASP: Our Nation’s Health Depends on Medicaid and Racist Roots of Work Requirements (timeline)
• CBO: CBO’s Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of Medicaid Work Requirements
• EPI: Work requirements for Medicaid do not address the real barriers to work and risk throwing many into health insecurity and Report – Work requirements for safety net programs like SNAP and Medicaid: A punitive solution that solves no real problem
• National Health Law Program: “Unfit” to Work? How Medicaid Work Requirements Hurt People with Disabilities
• KFF: Understanding the Intersection of Medicaid and Work: An Update
• Community Catalyst: The Truth about Medicaid Work Requirements: Costly, Ineffective, and Harmful and Let’s Cut To The Chase: Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work (video explainer)
• CAP: Medicaid Block Grants and Per Capita Caps Jeopardize State Budgets, Health Care Access, and Public Health
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council: Fact Sheet: Health Insurance at HCH Programs 2023 and Protect Medicaid – Letter to Congress
• Caring Across Generations: 10 Things to Know About Medicaid and Protect Medicaid 2025 Toolkit
• Georgetown CCF: House Budget Committee Circulates New Detailed List of Budget Reconciliation Options Including Draconian Medicaid Cuts Within House Republican Caucus
• Navigator Research: Health Care and the Budget: A Guide for Advocates
• Reminder — CHN’s State and Local Data Resource Library includes:
  • Commonwealth Fund: How Medicaid Helps Your State
  • Georgetown CCF: Medicaid/CHIP Coverage by Congressional District, 2023
  • KFF: Medicaid State Fact Sheets
  • CBPP: Medicaid Per Capita Cap Would Harm Millions of People by Forcing Deep Cuts and Shifting Costs to States
  • CBPP: Medicaid Work Requirements Could Put 36 Million People at Risk of Losing Health Coverage
• CHN’s online action (please share/replicate!): Congress must act now to defend Medicaid, reduce health costs
• Families USA: Share Your Medicaid Experience
• Protect Our Care: The GOP War on Medicaid Packet
• NHELP: Medicaid Defense – Resources and Analysis
• NILC: Standing Up For Immigrants’ Health and Wellbeing and Know Your Rights: Is It Safe to Apply for Health Insurance or Seek Health Care?

Protecting Nutrition

• CAP: How the Trump Administration Could Leave Families Hungry: Potential Cuts to SNAP in 2025 and Beyond
• FRAC: Organizations: Join Letter Opposing Efforts in Congress to Cut, Gut, or Weaken Federal Food Assistance Programs. The deadline to sign on is February 28, 2025.
• FRAC: Farm Bill 2025, Action Needed: Protect SNAP From Harmful Cuts, and Replacement Benefits for SNAP Theft Victims Should Be Permanent
• CBPP: Republican SNAP Proposals Could Take Food Away From Millions of Low-Income Individuals and Families
• CHN online action (please share/replicate!): Demand Congress save SNAP from extreme budget cuts
• Feeding America: Tell your lawmakers: Visit a food bank
• Journal of the American Medical Association: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Safety-Net Program Participation
• FRAC on the CHN blog: Replacement Benefits for SNAP Theft Victims Should Be Permanent

Tax

• ITEP: Trump and Congress’ Tax Package Likely to Worsen Racial Inequities and A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan
• EPI: There will be pain: Continuing low tax rates for the rich and corporations will hurt working families
• ATF/Color of Change: How Tax Fairness Can Promote Racial Equity
• NWLC et al: Families Over Billionaires: Why the 2025 Fight Matters for Care and What Child Care Advocates Need to Know about the Upcoming Tax Debate
• ATF: 126 National, State, and Local Organizations Send Letter Opposing Extension of Trump Tax Scam
• ATF/AFR/PEAS: Private Equity, Public Damage
• Tax Policy Center: 17 Million Children in Low Income Families Will Not Receive the Full Child Tax Credit in 2025
• Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy: Children Left Behind by the Child Tax Credit in 2023: By State and Congressional District
• CBPP: Policymakers Should Expand the Child Tax Credit for the 17 Million Children Currently Left Out of the Full Credit, includes estimates of children by state, race, and ethnicity
• CBPP: 14 Million Low-Income Adults Not Raising Children at Home Would Benefit From Permanently Expanded EITC, includes state by state numbers
• CLASP: The Earned Income Tax Credit Should be Expanded for Workers Without Children

Other issues in 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

Statements and Analysis from CHN Members and Partners

Funding Human Needs/Appropriations

• Congressional Research Service: Appropriations Status Table
• CHN: Budget and tax toolkit for local groups (Winter 2025)
• 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
• CBPP: House Republican Bills Deeply Cut Programs That Help Low-Income People and Underserved Communities
• CHN: Human needs advocates gather in U.S. Capitol to oppose House spending cuts
• CHN et al: Letter 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
• House Appropriations Committee Democrats: GOP’s Project 2025 Shapes Funding Bills (press release) and Project 2025 Shapes Republican Funding Bills (fact sheet)
• 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: To Better Meet Record Levels of Need, Keep Families Housed, Congress Must Increase 2025 Funding for Housing Assistance and 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • CBPP: Senate Appropriations Bill Maintains Critical Housing Investments While House Bill Makes Deep Cuts

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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.

• • CHN (online action): Fight back against funding cuts for education

• • Meals on Wheels America: Meals on Wheels America and NANASP condemn funding cuts to senior nutrition programs passed by the House Appropriations Committee 

• • National Council on Aging: Statement: House Proposals to Cut Services for Older Adults Would Hurt American Families, appropriation resources, and compare & contrast House vs. Senate proposals.

• • Rep. DeLauro’s fact sheets on impact of House bill cuts to education, including with state-by-state numbers

• • CHN (online action): Tell Congress: Invest in nutritional programs for seniors

• • 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.

• • 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.