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This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, food assistance, and health.

On the federal budget, Brendan Duke offered two key questions for policymakers to consider when assessing affordability proposals. Jacob Leibenluft, Devin O’Connor, and Sam Berger underscored the Trump Administration’s repeated moves to undermine the federal grantmaking system. Berger also joined Richard Kogan in explaining why an automatic continuing resolution is not a good solution for averting government shutdowns.
On food assistance, Elisabet Eppes and Zoë Neuberger noted that offering virtual services enables the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) to function better for current recipients while expanding the reach for new families.
On health, Gideon Lukens detailed how the Trump Administration used a deeply flawed analysis to justify its approach to a new policy taking people’s Medicaid coverage away for not meeting a harsh work requirement. In our Executive Action Watch tracker, Allie Gardner critiqued a Trump Administration proposal that would increase administrative burden for states, stifle innovation, and likely limit states’ ability to implement or continue certain Medicaid policies.

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

Samantha Waxman posted a thread on X and Bluesky on how states across the country are raising revenue and supporting families with tax credit expansion.
Victoria Gibney posted a thread to Bluesky on unconditional cash transfer programs during pregnancy and infancy and how increased resources for households greatly improve wellbeing for children.
Gideon Lukens posted a thread to X and Bluesky on how direct funds for cost-sharing reductions would lower health coverage costs for the wealthy while millions of low- and moderate-income families would lose coverage.
Zoë Neuberger posted a thread on X and Bluesky on Ashley Blair’s experience with virtual services for WIC, which made much-needed support attainable.

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

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