The fiscal distress Republicans are inflicting on residents of the nation’s capital is unprecedented, and it will hit human services the hardest.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Outdo Themselves in Food Stamp Cuts
House Republicans plan to cut a staggering $300 billion from SNAP, far more than they’d originally planned.
Posted inPolitics
House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies
President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.
Posted inPolitics
The Big Beautiful Bill Is Hanging by a Thread
There is so much unfinished business that some Republicans in Washington are saying the unsayable: Just drop it.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Medicaid Cuts in Republican Bill Would Charge Poor People More for Coverage
The cost-sharing requirements on beneficiaries above the federal poverty line is the most notable item in a menu of Medicaid cuts seen by the Prospect.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s Weakness Shows Through
Today on TAP: The executive order purporting to cut NPR and PBS funding was supposed to go through Congress, but Trump had to go it alone.
Posted inEconomic Policy
House Republicans Take Their Turn at Ravaging CFPB
Kneecapping the consumer financial protection agency would do much to enable fraud, and next to nothing to reduce federal expenditures.
Posted inEducation in America
Republicans Opt to Make Education an Upper-Class Privilege
The goal is to save money on higher-education assistance to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Declare War on Asylum Seekers and the FTC
The House Judiciary Committee section of the GOP mega-bill is appalling.
Posted inTAP
Pressuring Republican Reps to Pressure Trump
Today on TAP: The strategy has been effective against one GOP legislator, David Valadao in CA-22, and it is going national.
