Alarming news this morning that Social Security head Frank Bisignano has been named “CEO” of IRS, a move that raises 3 major concerns: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Happy 175th, California 🎉 Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Coachella, tacos, beaches… and the nation’s highest poverty rate. For California to be a place where everyone thrives, state leaders must take bold action to curb poverty and chart a new vision forward. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/ca...

Census data show decades of progress reducing poverty and expanding health coverage, but the harmful Republican megabill will reverse course by pushing poverty and inequality higher and leaving millions more uninsured. www.cbpp.org/blog/analyzi...

In 2024, #SNAP, SSI, the #ChildTaxCredit, housing vouchers, and #Medicaid lifted millions out of poverty, but the harmful Republican megabill and Trump Administration plans cut/would cut them, taking food, housing, and income support from millions. www.cbpp.org/blog/analyzi...

California's share of million-dollar tax filers is up since 2010. With the recent artificial "intelligence" boom, these numbers may climb higher in future data. #CABudget open.substack.com/pub/jasonsis...

From @hshierholz.bsky.social: Trump's firing of BLS commissioner is undemocratic and economically dangerous. Between illegal firings, starving data agencies of resources, and now political intimidation, the US looks set to run into the next economic downturn flying blind www.epi.org/press/trumps...

Our new timeline breaks down when major provisions of the harmful Republican megabill take effect, including the largest cuts to health and food assistance in history, hitting families already struggling to afford basics. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

The federal budget will deeply harm Californians — cutting essential services while giving tax breaks to the wealthy. California’s state leaders must take bold action to protect people and invest in our future. ⚡ Our team breaks down what’s at stake: calbudgetcenter.org/resources/st...

Tons of my colleagues at @americanprogress.bsky.social undertook the Herculean task of creating a timeline for when various parts of the "big beautiful bill" begin and when various temporary provisions end. You can read it here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Direct File saved users an average of $160 in filing fees and made it easier for families to claim tax credits like the EITC and CTC. Despite strong results from its pilot year, the IRS says it's "gone."

Want to know how the recently enacted federal and state budgets will impact Californians who already face barriers to making ends meet? Find out more about the impacts and how California leaders can take action to respond with @calbudgetcenter.org's new resource. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/st...

CBO says Trump's megabill will add $3.4 trillion to the deficit while stripping health care from 10 million people. And for what? Massive tax cuts that will mostly flow to the richest Americans and foreign investors.

Elected officials need to stop writing tax policy in fear of how their wealthy donors will react. Stop appeasing them at the expense of working people and their livelihoods. It's time our politicians start pursuing tax policies that will actually benefit the majority of people, not the select few.

"President Trump’s nearly 1,000-page reconciliation bill strips away health care, food assistance, and other basic supports from millions of Americans, including Californians across every congressional district in the state." ⚡ Read our full statement: calbudgetcenter.org/news/budget-...

Trump's new income tax deduction for tip income doesn't apply to tips-- it applies to "qualified tips," which is "cash tips received by an individual in an occupation which customarily and regularly receive[s] tips." Which means it's up to the Treasury Dept/IRS to decide what 'regularly" means.

This 4th of July should have us all reflecting

In June, CA Republican Reps. Young Kim & David Valadao announced that they "cannot support a final [budget] bill that threatens access to coverage or jeopardizes the stability of our hospitals and providers." Will they keep their word? #Medicaid #HealthPolicy valadao.house.gov/uploadedfile...

Rep. Young Kim (CD-40) announced last month that she "cannot support a final bill that threatens access to coverage or jeopardizes the stability of our hospitals and providers." That's exactly what the Senate bill does. Will she vote no on the House floor? #Medicaid valadao.house.gov/uploadedfile...

"They'll get over it" - Mitch McConnell "Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst "Minutiae" - JD Vance

🚨🚨 The Senate just funded Trump's mass deportation agenda. If the House approves the bill, the resulting increase in arrests, detentions, and deportations will cause millions of immigrant and US-born workers to lose their jobs New analysis from me @epi.org www.epi.org/blog/the-rep...

The Senate’s budget vote is a roadmap of misplaced priorities: - Cuts health care for vulnerable families - Pulls food away from kids - Boosts funding for immigration detention - Increases premiums in the health marketplace - Delivers tax breaks to the wealthy Californians deserve better.

The Senate-passed bill weakens the tax system and makes it more regressive, complex, and gameable. Many of its tax cuts are complicated and wasteful tax breaks that dole out favors to specific industries and activities with little or no good policy reason.

Trump's "big beautiful bill" would triple funding for ICE agents, providing significantly greater ability to continue terrorizing people, ripping apart families, and disappearing people to prisons without due process.

The Senate bill would rip health care from millions of Californians. It slashes Medi-Cal, imposes cruel red tape, and threatens coverage for workers, kids, people with disabilities, and rural communities. This isn’t reform. It’s intentional harm. calbudgetcenter.org/news/senate-...

NEW: The Senate version of One Big Beautiful Bill is one big ugly transfer of wealth from low-income families to the rich. Americans struggling to get by will pay more for groceries & health care so the highest income families can get big tax cuts. This isn’t shared sacrifice.

Proposed cuts to Medicaid could be devastating for #smallbiz owners and their workers. Our research, in partnership with Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, finds that one-third of all Medicaid enrollees are connected to small businesses. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Millions of people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including: 📍1,967,000 people in California 📍191,000 people in Colorado 📍156,000 people in Connecticut 📍49,000 people in DC Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it

The Senate is barreling toward a vote on an unfinished bill that wld take away health coverage & food assistance from millions, raise families’ costs, & make ppl in our nation worse off. There’s still time for senators to say no to this bill. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

We do not yet have a full distributional analysis of the Senate GOP leadership's One Big Beautiful Bill, but here is a *rough* guess of the combined spending and tax cuts. Low-income families being asked to sacrifice on behalf of tax cuts for high-income families.

The Republican leadership's tax and budget plan is an extreme giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. ⬇️

Congressional Republicans constantly say that we need to pass One Big Beautiful Bill—and make low-income families pay more for health care and groceries—to avoid raising taxes on families. But the tax cuts go far beyond the cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts for families

A new analysis from @itep.org shows Trump's tax plan is yet another giveaway to the wealthiest Americans. The wealthiest 1% would get more money back than the bottom 60% of Americans combined. It’s time for a tax code that lifts everyone. itep.org/analysis-of-...

The reconciliation bill puts health benefits for tipped workers at risk. ⬇️

A new report from Small Business Majority and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families finds that 1 in 3 Medicaid enrollees are #smallbiz owners, workers or family members, meaning cuts to Medicaid pose a serious risk to the future of #smallbiz. ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/06/26/m...

Funny how people who are about to lose their Medicaid coverage should "get over it"—but god forbid we tell the billionaires they can't have their tax breaks.

New estimates from @itep.org show that the Senate tax plan overall has basically the same impacts as the House plan for Californians - the richest 5% get about 40% of the total benefits.

Republicans' plan to slash federal funding for #SNAP & impose an unfunded mandate on states is a fundamentally harmful policy that would increase hunger, worsen recessions, and potentially result in some states ending SNAP altogether. That's not something that can be "fixed."

🩺"If the Senate plan moves forward, here’s what’s at stake for Californians: Health care would be ripped away from Californians across the state. Millions could lose access to life-saving treatments, and health-sustaining medications as funding gets slashed. " calbudgetcenter.org/news/senate-...

Congress usually doesn't set out to create a tax shelter. But Senate Republicans now want to create a permanent, 100% tax credit for private school voucher donations. Billions in public revenue that could fund public schools will go to vouchers instead.

Shout it from the rooftops!

This suggests that Republicans may add yet another deeply harmful health care cut to the Senate bill – a cut that would take health coverage away from even more people, shift massive, unaffordable costs to states, & could even lead some states to end their #Medicaid expansion.

"Medi-Cal is a critical component of one of the biggest sectors of Southern California’s economy: health care." The Labor Center estimates 1.25 million residents of the four SoCal counties work in some area of health care. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/california-h...

The Trump administration has spent months illegally impounding funds in the name of waste, fraud, and abuse. Congressional Republicans are now seeking to cut GAO, an organization dedicated to rooting out waste, frauds abuse, roughly in half.

The Democratic staff of the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Ag Committee are heroes. They beat the state share mandate. Wildly uphill battle on this one. Just wow.

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.

Read our full analysis here: americansfortaxfairness.org/double-troub...

A new CBO score showing the House version of the "Big, Beautiful Bill" would cost $3.4 trillion makes one thing clear: This bill is far from "beautiful." Instead, it's a deficit buster that offers almost no benefits for Main Street #smallbiz. shorturl.at/Deadq

trump implicitly pretending his “big beautiful bill” is about freedom (by tying it to july 4) is really gross. it would kick more than 10 million people off their health insurance and rip food assistance from millions including families with kids as young as 10 freedom to be sick and hungry maybe

Remember this next time a supporter of the "Big Beautiful Bill" says something about Social Security's future. Even as they speak, they're squandering the funds they could use to close the entire financing gap on tax cuts for the wealthy and large corps.

While we're still waiting on estimates on the cost and distribution of the Senate's tax plan, it generally has the same issues as the House plan: tax breaks that will overwhelmingly benefit the rich to pay for cruel cuts to health care and food assistance. Some of the worst tax provisions: