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| By CBPP

This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, immigration, health, state budgets and taxes, the federal budget, Social Security, and the economy.

On food assistance, Katie Bergh, Dottie Rosenbaum, and Wesley Tharpe detailed how the House Republican reconciliation bill would take food assistance away from millions of low-income families.
On immigration, Margot Dankner, Shelby Gonzales, Elizabeth Lower-Basch, and Kiran Rachamallu explained how the House Republican reconciliation bill takes away health coverage, food assistance, tax credits from millions of immigrants and their families.
On health, we updated our paper describing how the House-passed Republican reconciliation bill takes away health coverage from about 15 million people and raises health care costs for millions of others.
On state budgets and taxes, we posted state fact sheets that show how the House reconciliation bill fails families, children, and communities in every state.
On the federal budget, Cristin Dorgelo and Jacob Leibenluft explained that interference by the Trump Administration’s DOGE organization is making federal grantmaking less efficient, more uncertain, more political, and more open to corruption. 
On Social Security, Claire Zippel and Devin O’Connor illustrated how new phone service restrictions will burden seniors with long, unnecessary travel in an interactive map and state fact sheets.
On the economy, we updated our backgrounder on how many weeks of unemployment compensation are available per state.

The Center was active on social media this week. Here are some of our posts:

Kathleen Romig posted on Bluesky highlighting our interactive map and fact sheets on how the Trump Administration and DOGE’s new Social Security phone service restrictions are affecting seniors across states.
Katie Bergh posted on X and Bluesky explaining the ways the House-passed reconciliation bill would make harmful cuts to SNAP.

A variety of news outlets featured CBPP’s work and experts this past week. Here are some of the highlights:

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