As federal policymakers consider investments to address the nation’s pressing infrastructure needs, a core priority should be to direct substantial resources to low-income communities, our ... Read more
The bill would increase funding for both defense and non-defense discretionary programs in 2020 and 2021 above the very low ceilings set under the 2011 Budget Control Act. Read more
The plan fails at the key task of laying out a path for Congress to resolve the year’s most pressing budget challenge: reaching agreement on discretionary funding levels. Read more
Update, March 22: We’ve updated this post. Here are the CBPP posts and papers to date on President Trump’s 2020 budget; we’ll update this list ... Read more
The President’s budget proposes to cut 2020 funding for non-defense discretionary (NDD) programs — a broad category that includes everything from education to veterans’ medical ... Read more
President Trump’s new budget would take Medicaid coverage away from adults nationwide if they don’t meet a work requirement, which the Kaiser Family ... Read more
President Trump’s 2020 budget, released today, would make poverty more widespread, widen inequality and racial disparities, and increase the ranks of the uninsured. Read more
Just weeks after promising in the State of the Union to expand funding to substantially reduce new HIV infections over the next ten years and ... Read more
The budget would make poverty deeper and more widespread, increase the ranks of the uninsured, exacerbate inequality and racial disparities, and shrink opportunities for those trying to get ahead. Read more
The two Trump budgets so far have offered policies that would increase poverty, inequality, and the ranks of the uninsured while underfunding core public services. Read more
