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)
• 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
  • 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 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
• 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
• The 19^th: The child tax credit is changing. Here’s what it means for your family.
• KFF: Health Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget 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)

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

Protecting nutrition programs

• UnidosUS: The House Budget Resolution’s cuts to SNAP would be the largest in U.S. history
• CAP: How the Trump Administration Could Leave Families Hungry: Potential Cuts to SNAP in 2025 and Beyond
• Food Research & Action Center:
  • Releases State-by-State Analysis on SNAP Participation, Illustrates Harm Cuts to SNAP Would Have on Children, Older Adults, Veterans, Rural Communities
  • SNAP Challenge 2025: Imagine going to the grocery store and having only $6 per day to fill your cart
  • More than 1,800 National, State, and Community Organizations Urge Congress to Protect, Strengthen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
  • 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
• Commonwealth Fund:  How Potential Federal Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP Could Trigger the Loss of a Million-Plus Jobs, Reduced Economic Activity, and Less State Revenue
• RESULTS Expert on Poverty Aaron Carrillo via House Democrats Steering & Policy Committee: Hearing on SNAP cuts
• 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
• Meals on Wheels: Possible Elimination of Social Services Block Grant puts Meals on Wheels Providers and Millions of Older Adults at Risk
• National WIC Association: Policy Brief: Federal Budget Proposals Could Threaten WIC Access
• CHN online action (please share/replicate!): Demand Congress save SNAP from extreme budget cuts
• Feeding America: Tell your lawmakers: Visit a food bank

Protecting health & Medicaid

• FamiliesUSA: Medicaid Expansion Reduces Maternal Mortality: Medicaid Cuts Would Be Deadly for Mothers and Babies
• CLASP: Infographic: It’s A Cut To Medicaid No Matter What You Call It, Our Nation’s Health Depends on Medicaid and Racist Roots of Work Requirements (timeline)
• CBPP: Republicans in Congress Considering Harsh Medicaid Cuts That Would Shift Costs to States, Leave People Uninsured
• Center on American Progress: The Republican House Budget Resolution’s Potential $880 Billion in Medicaid Cuts by Congressional District
• UnidosUS: Medicaid Cuts Would Rip Away Health Coverage from Millions of Americans, Disproportionately Harming People of Color
  • Medicaid Matters: To People, Our Economy and the Health Care System
  • Health Action Resources Landing Page
  • 90 Seconds or Less Policy Explainers 
  • Fact sheet on changing formulas for federal matching funds for Medicaid (“FMAP”)
  • Fact sheet on limiting state options to raise their share of funds to cover Medicaid beneficiaries (Provider Tax)
  • Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: Bureaucratic Burdens That Threaten Working Families, Providers and Local Economies
• Families USA:
  • Organizations Unite in the Hundreds to Urge Senate Majority Leader to Reject Proposal to Take Health Care Away from Millions of Americans
  • On the First Full Day of President Trump’s Second Term, More Than 425 Organizations Urge Him to Protect Medicaid Coverage
• First Focus:
  • The Kid Angle: Medicaid/CHIP cuts threaten one-third of all school age children
  • Prescription for Disaster: The Impact of Proposed Medicaid and CHIP Cuts on Children’s Health
  • Making America Sick Again: How Medicaid Caps Will Leave Children Underinsured and Unhealthy
  • Letter from 342 organizations urging Congress to reject cuts to Medicaid and CHIP
• 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
• 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
• Bazelon Center: Medicaid Work Requirements Harm People with Mental Health Disabilities
• 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
• Justice in Aging, Medicare Rights Center, Center for Medicare Advocacy, and Community Catalyst: A Cut to Medicaid is a Cut to Medicare
• The Century Foundation: Beyond Health: Medicaid Cuts Would Bring Widespread Harms to Americans
• Healthy School Campaign:
  • Full report: How Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Students & Schools
  • Executive summary: How Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Students & Schools
  • Toolkit: How Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Students & Schools
• Families USA: Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements – Bureaucratic Burdens That Threaten Working Families, Providers and Local Economies (Fact Sheet)
• CBPP: 36 Million People at Risk of Having Health Coverage Taken Away by Medicaid Work Requirements
• AFSCME: Medicaid Work Requirements Are a Medicaid Cut in Disguise
• Commonwealth Fund:  How Potential Federal Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP Could Trigger the Loss of a Million-Plus Jobs, Reduced Economic Activity, and Less State Revenue
• KFF: 5 Key Facts About Medicaid Work Requirements
• Community Catalyst: Dental Access Project | Why Medicaid Matters for Oral Health
• Coalition to Promote Self-Determination: Medicaid Cuts Hurt Workforce Participation 
• Medicaid in Schools Coalition: Letter from 66 organizations opposing attempts in budget reconciliation that could cap or cut Medicaid funding
• 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
  • Who is Harmed by Medicaid Work Requirements?
  • Top 10 Reasons Why Work Requirements Should Not Be Added to Medicaid
• 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
• 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
• Hart Research: Key Issues in Healthcare- Where Voters Stand, presentation slides, Health Care Message Guidance (February 2025), and Protect Our Care Polling Memo
• 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

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?

Tax justice and revenue opportunities

• Groundwork Collaborative: Tax Giveaways for Gouging: How the Trump Tax Law Fueled Corporate Profiteering – Groundwork Collaborative
• EPI: Cutting Medicaid to pay for low taxes on the rich is a terrible trade for American families and There will be pain: Continuing low tax rates for the rich and corporations will hurt working families
• ITEP:
  • Trump and Congress’ Tax Package Likely to Worsen Racial Inequities
  • A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan
  • Millions of Citizen Children Would be Harmed by Proposal Billed as Targeting Immigrant Tax Filers
  • Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants
  • Shelter Skelter: How the Educational Choice for Children Act Would Use Tax Avoidance to Fuel School Privatization and: A Revenue Impact Analysis of the Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025
• 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
• Peoples Action: Make Billionaires Pay (Taxes)
• ATF: 126 National, State, and Local Organizations Send Letter Opposing Extension of Trump Tax Scam
• ATF Action: Report Reveals Dozens of GOP House Seats with Victory Margins Lower Than Residents Who Could Be Hurt by Proposed Budget & DOGE Cuts
• 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

Executive Action watch and Litigation tracker

• NETWORK LOBBY: Tracking the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders and Actions, includes litigation status.
• CBPP: Executive Action Watch – How the Trump Administration Is Harming People and Undermining Government
• CHN and partners early crowdsourced tracker of funding freezes and Administration attacks
• NWLC, AAPD, ERA, NELP, NPWF, NTTI, and LCCHR: Workers Rights Organizations Condemn the Dismantling of Workplace Civil Rights Enforcement Agency

Other related resources

• Congressional Research Service: Appropriations Status Table
• House Committee on Appropriations Democrats: Significant Problems with Full-Year Continuing Resolutions
• 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
• NEA: Federal Education Funding for Selected Programs by State and Program
• 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
• 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
• 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
• CAP: Understanding the Basics of Child Care in the United States
• 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