With a huge unfunded mandate for #SNAP food benefits one step closer to becoming law, don't lose sight of the painful tradeoffs states will be facing: Do they raise taxes? Cut state funding for other vital services? Slash the number of eligible low-income people receiving food assistance?

States still stand to lose big under the now-passed Senate R reconciliation plan, w/ major new costs forcing likely cuts to health care, food benefits, & other S&L priorities. Just the #SNAP cost-shift alone will force painful choices. At the 15% maximum state rate, for ex⬇️

Based on new USDA data released today, 44 states would have to pay tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars under Senate Republicans' #SNAP cost-shift plan. If a state can't fully pay, they would have to cut many low-income families off SNAP or end their program altogether.

It shocks the conscience.

The truth is clear — the Senate Republican reconciliation bill will hurt people in every state if enacted. Senators who vote for it are responsible for its impact ⬇️

"We fear that if this bill passes, a village in rural Alaska might lose its one-and-only grocery store because of a drastic decline in SNAP dollars. It might also lose its sole health care clinic or hospital because it cannot sustain its services with decreased Medicaid reimbursements."

The national school voucher proposal in the Senate GOP reconciliation plan would threaten students’ access to quality public schools, give tax breaks to the wealthy, & override states that have rejected these harmful policies. Lawmakers who care about our kids’ futures should reject it.

Senate & House Rs are rushing a massive reconciliation plan that promises widespread harm to people & communities in *every state*, partly thru shifting major costs states simply can't afford. Fresh out from us today is more state-by-state context on the potential pinch. www.cbpp.org/research/sta...

There is confusion about whether the Parliamentarian has indicated that a slightly revised version of the #SNAP cost-shift to states in the Senate Republican bill complies with the Byrd rule. But what’s clear is: the provision’s harmful impact is unchanged.

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.

The Senate Republican leadership’s reconciliation proposal would take health coverage away from millions of people and dramatically raise health care costs for millions more. Here's our recap, including an overview of the damaging #Medicaid cuts: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

It shocks the conscience that Senate Republican leaders saw the impacts of the House bill — 16 million more people uninsured and millions losing help buying groceries, including families with children — and chose to double down.

Questions to ask about the House R plan: Is my state raising taxes to make up for these huge federal cuts? Is my state cutting other services (schools, child care, etc.) to fill that funding gap? If my state can't make up the federal cuts, whose food assistance or health care is getting taken away?

NEW REPORT: House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, now in the Senate, would shift major new costs to the state- & local-level, paving the way for harmful cuts to food assistance, health care, & other services like education. Here’s the 3 top things to know:🧵

The bond downgrade specifically mentioned this bill as one of the reasons.

What else would you expect from a plan that takes away health care, cuts food assistance, dismantles progress on climate change, and increases the cost of college all to give the very rich big tax cuts.

House Republicans "want to shift blame for the cuts to states, but the blame game won’t matter to children, families, seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, small business owners, and others when they are hungry and can’t afford food."

Iowa’s already tapping surpluses — to the tune of $900 million — to balance next year’s budget!

New from me: The House GOP moved ahead with its plans to slash SNAP spending in the sneakiest way possible. By shifting costs to states but delaying it until after the midterms, they’re hoping to get credit for cutting spending with none of the backlash

And if they succeed, then widespread cuts to health care, food assistance, S&L services like schools & roads & any number of things that workers & families count on everyday will follow.

And what could the Republican #SNAP cuts cost in your state? We've got the new data for that: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

House Republicans’ new budget bills promise widespread harm to people & communities in every state across the U.S. One way they seek to hide these harmful impacts is by slashing federal funding & then passing the buck to state & local gov’ts to make the toughest choices & cuts.🧵

A $370 billion cut to Medicaid wouldn't go toward deficit reduction--it would finance the $350 billion tax break for millionaire owners of pass-through businesses that would go into the same freaking bill.

Most state taxes already ask more of lower earners than the wealthy. That trend only accelerated in this year’s legislative sessions, worrying advocates who want to see the rich pay a larger share. stateline.org/2025/04/29/n...

NEW ESTIMATES: The policy reported here—adding a state cost-share for #SNAP that ramps up to 22.5%—would impose $23.65 billion in new costs on states just in the first year it's fully phased in. This would likely lead to deep cuts to food assistance. State numbers in link below⤵️

The budget resolution passed by Congressional Republicans proposes unprecedented cuts to Medicaid, affecting coverage for 72M individuals, payments to providers, and state economies. There is no way to cut federal funding for Medicaid without harming people. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

In some disturbing statehouse news this month, Mississippi policymakers delivered a hard blow to their state's future by voting to eliminate their personal income tax. Why's that such an alarming step other states should seek to avoid? Let's dig in (🧵)

Staying UTD on Trump admin's harmful exec actions is challenging, to say the least. Get an assist with @centeronbudget.bsky.social's Executive Action Tracker. Our new climate entry covers harms to vulnerable communities from the recent preparedness EO www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

As Republicans in Congress consider cuts to Medicaid funding, states are weighing options to scale back their programs. But voters in three states have limited those options by enshrining Medicaid expansion in their constitutions — creating a potential budget disaster. stateline.org/2025/04/17/s...

It’s the one day we’re all talking about all things taxes. That’s good! Let’s celebrate the occasion by walking thru a few key tax developments we’re watching in the states at @centeronbudget.bsky.social this #TaxDay. 🧵

"This budget...was terrible a couple of months ago. It is a far worse plan at a moment when the President’s tariffs, chaotically crafted and applied, have caused business uncertainty to soar and raised the risk of a recession, higher unemployment, and surging prices." www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Republican budget plans to take health care & food assistance from millions, threaten funds for schools & other services, & shift enormous costs to state & local budgets are now on the move. If enacted, here's how people everywhere will pay the price. www.cbpp.org/blog/shiftin...

#ESSER mitigated pandemic learning loss. The most vulnerable students are still recovering, but now Dept. of Ed is clawing back billions already obligated to investments like tutoring and healthy learning environments, jeopardizing ongoing academic recovery. www.the74million.org/article/clos...

Elon Musk’s sledgehammer approach to government "efficiency" — abruptly cancelling contracts and conducting mass firings through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — has inspired a slew of state-level copycats seeking to similarly slash state budgets.🧵

Early chaos from Elon Musk's sweeping & haphazard campaign of worker layoffs continues to play out across states, with deeper cuts from President Trump now in the pipeline promising to make things worse. New details out from me today⬇️

1/10 The Admin has advanced its goal of dismantling the Dept. of Ed by firing nearly half its staff. Combined with other education EOs, it’s clear we’re witnessing an attempt to gut public schools & steal opportunities from the average American student. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

The potential hit to state & local budgets from emerging Republican proposals continues to pile up. Next up on the list? Mandating states pay a share of federal food benefits for the first time, likely worsening hunger and leading to cuts.

The House may vote as soon as tomorrow on a federal government funding bill that contains a hidden, devastating surprise for the District of Columbia: a requirement that DC drastically slash its budget halfway through the fiscal yr, causing immediate cuts to police, schools, transportation & more.

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The massive budget cuts to health care, food assistance, & other services approved by House Republicans this week promise enormous harm to communities from coast to coast, as frontline leaders in the states have been loudly trying to say. Let’s take a tour of some examples🧵

We all eventually have our own version of the first time a young colleague refers to you as Mr. Tharpe, and for me that day was today 😭🥲

Overnight, the Senate passed a partisan budget that lays a path for taking food assistance & health coverage away from people & making college more expensive -- to pay for defense & deportation funding &, later, costly tax cuts for the wealthy.  www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Urban Institute: reducing the #Medicaid expansion match rate – as some GOP plans have proposed – would create a $44.3B funding shortfall for states in 2026. If states respond by dropping their expansions, up to 10.8 million people would become uninsured. www.urban.org/research/pub...

🚨NEWS: Massive layoffs are about to hit the IRS -- around 10,000 employees -- potentially in the middle of filing season. Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities. -- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson

I’m new to Bluesky(👋), but I’ve been paying attention to ACA marketplace enrollment since the very beginning. Here’s what I’m seeing as we wait for the first marketplace regulation from this Trump administration (currently at OMB).

In a time when our institutions and rule of law are under attack from all sides, there was something quietly beautiful about spending the past week on jury duty, w/ a few fellow citizens, that felt like a small act of love🏛️

House Republican budget could impact millions: 36M+ may lose Medicaid, 40M+ could see reduced food aid through SNAP, and student loan costs may rise for millions of borrowers—offsetting the cost of extending expiring 2017 tax cuts for high-income people. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

It’s off to the races in state legislatures this year, with a slew of tax & budget proposals likely to impact families & communities nationwide. Here’s one so far that's especially important: MD Gov. Moore’s proactive revenue package (🧵) www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

New report: about $1 in every $3 of state spending comes from federal funds, & that longstanding support is vital to families, communities, & state economies nationwide. Emerging Trump & congressional GOP proposals could threaten broad swaths of it very soon. Here’s how (🧵):

State budgets & economies in 2025 face a quadruple threat. Threading the needle will take thoughtful action, but it can be done. Step 1?-reversing course from the harmful tax cut path. More from me this week in @bloombergtax.com news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...