The Senate Budget Committee will consider this week a 2018 budget resolution that will facilitate $1.5 trillion of deficit-increasing tax cuts, likely benefiting those who are most well-off. Read more
Given the size of the student aid cuts in the House Budget Committee’s 2018 budget resolution, one wonders if the House GOP thinks college is too affordable. Read more
For 45 years, the federal Pell Grant program has been the cornerstone of financial assistance for students from low- and moderate-income families, helping millions go ... Read more
The House Budget Committee will consider as early as this week a 2018 budget plan that will set a framework for budget, tax, and appropriations ... Read more
President Trump’s 2018 budget includes $2.5 trillion in cuts over the next decade to low-income programs like SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly food ... Read more
President Trump’s forthcoming 2018 budget will likely propose policies that would significantly damage the well-being of tens of millions of low- and middle-income people. Read more
President Trump has begun to define and implement an agenda that would harm the families he says he wants to help, often to drive policies that would benefit very high-income households and corporations. Read more
The President’s emerging fiscal agenda features large increases in defense funding that are offset by cuts in a range of critical domestic priorities. Read more
President Trump’s plans to raise defense funding by $54 billion in 2018 and cut non-defense discretionary (NDD) spending — which funds key priorities like education and job training, clean water, scientific and medical research, veterans’ medical care, and homeland security — by the same amount would lower NDD funding by 11 percent below this year’s level. Read more
