Our fellows representing Georgia: Representative Lydia Glaize and Jasmine Bowles of @9to5georgia.bsky.social Our fellows representing Maryland: Delegate Emily Shetty and Kali Schumitz of @mdeconomy.bsky.social

The Trump administration's failure to fund SNAP benefits will have devastating impacts on families' budgets and local economies. SNAP supports households getting food on tables, generates 100,000s of jobs, and every dollar returns $1.50 to the local economy. www.americanprogress.org/article/snap...

For over 680,000 Marylanders, SNAP benefits make the difference between feeding their families and going to bed hungry. They don’t have time for this Administration’s political games: they needed answers last week.

New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

More than 690,000 Marylanders could go without the essential assistance that helps them afford groceries next month if the Trump administration does not act to use available funds. State leaders should step in to ensure kids and families don't go hungry. mdeconomy.org/policymakers...

Punchbowl reports “White House officials determined they do not have the authority” to use contingency reserves —billions of $ that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate— to fund Nov. SNAP benefits. But, that’s not what USDA’s now-deleted shutdown plan says:

Maryland will provide state subsidies for many enrollees if enhancements expire. Even so, premium increases will be large, and not all enrollees are eligible for the state support: a typical 60-year-old MD couple making $85,000 will face a $13,700 increase in annual premiums. (2/4)

Minnesota and Maryland also opened window shopping for 2026 ACA marketplace plans, and people are seeing their premiums spike due to expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old Minnesotan couple making $85,000 will face a $15,500 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)

1/ Starting Nov.1, 24 million people who receive their healthcare insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces will see their premiums DOUBLE because of cuts to ACA subsidies and Medicaid passed by Congressional Republicans. Young adults will be hit the hardest.

NEW from @centeronbudget.bsky.social: Without Congressional action, premium tax credit enhancements will expire, raising costs for nearly all marketplace enrollees and putting millions of those with the lowest incomes at risk of becoming uninsured when they lose $0 premium plans.

NEW: Despite White House statements implying that #WIC benefits for low-income families would be immediately disrupted if the government partially shuts down this week, the Trump Administration & state officials have several steps they could & should take to keep WIC running.

Marylanders will be dealing with the fallout of the federal budget bill for years to com, including thousands of people losing health coverage and struggling to afford food. Read more about the impact this legislation will have on Maryland in our latest blog post. mdeconomy.org/recent-feder...

Trump’s tax bill threatens Medicaid coverage for rural Marylanders

The budget bill Congressional Republicans just passed rips away healthcare and food assistance from families while rewarding the ultra-wealthy. In Maryland, that means an estimated 210,000 will lose health coverage and 57,000 are at risk of losing some or all of their food assistance.

Congress is poised to pass one of the most destructive economic bills in generations. It will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income. 1/

More than 5 million people, including 800,000 children and over half a million older adults or adults with disabilities, could lose food assistance due to new work requirements in the Senate reconciliation bill. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Senate Republicans betrayed working people and passed a budget bill that will add $4 TRILLION to the national debt. With that money, you could write a $12,000 check to every. single. person. in. America. (adults AND kids!) Instead, all that money is going to millionaires and corporations.

This cruel legislation would take basic health and food supports away from 1000s of Maryland kids, parents, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities - all to further enrich the already wealthy. There's still time to take a different path. Read our full statement: mdeconomy.org/statement-se...

This agenda directs harm on the very people the President and many Republicans say they are trying to help.

You have rights – and starting TODAY (July 1st), your landlord will be required by the state to inform you of them! New leases will come with an 8pg document, called the 'Tenants Bill of Rights'. This is a huge step forward for making sure tenants know their rights while we fight to expand them!

A little something I chipped in at @itep.org ... The predominant feature of the tax and spending bill working its way through Congress is a massive tax cut for the richest 1 percent — a $114 billion benefit to the wealthiest people in the country in 2026 alone. itep.org/trump-megabi...

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda the Senate is debating today, including 210,000 people in here Maryland. Policymakers should protect and improve people’s health care, not cut it.

New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

An amendment in the Senate Republican bill would cut hundreds of billions more from state #Medicaid funding, putting coverage at risk for millions. More from @gidlukens.bsky.social, including the impacts by state: www.cbpp.org/research/med...

Prelim CBO estimates confirm that the Senate bill cuts #Medicaid more deeply than the House-passed bill did. www.cbpp.org/charts/senat...

A snapshot of the Senate Republican agenda: A big win for the wealthy & deeply harmful for everyone else.

Preschool and other early childhood learning experiences play a significant role in preparing young kids for school. When kids enter kindergarten behind their peers, they often struggle to catch up later in their education. Learn more in the 2025 KIDS COUNT® Data Book. bit.ly/2025KCDB-BS

Republicans want to let rich people donate to private school vouchers instead of paying their taxes. "The effect would be a profitable tax shelter for wealthy people who agree to help funnel public funds into private schools." — @itep.org How come no one is talking about this?

Proposed massive cuts to health coverage and food assistance "would be devastating for Maryland, and not just in the ways most people expect," the @mdfoodbank.bsky.social CEO writes in Maryland Matters. marylandmatters.org/2025/06/24/c...

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.

This Wednesday at 11 am - learn about the current state of homeownership in Maryland and how policy changes can expand access to opportunity and protect homeowners facing challenges. Register for the webinar at mdeconomy.org/events

Family financial stability provides an essential foundation for childhood development. Kids are more likely to experience poverty when their parents do not have access to affordable housing or stable employment. Download the 2025 KIDS COUNT® Data Book to learn more. bit.ly/2025KCDB-BS

Direct File is a great tool that has already helped thousands of Marylanders easily and securely file their taxes for free. We should be building on its success, not taking a step backward. marylandmatters.org/2025/05/27/d...

The House tax bill overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest Americans. Net tax cuts: $138 billion for top 1% of Americans $92 billion for bottom 60% of Americans This will worsen wealth inequality through the tax code.

New numbers from ITEP on tax cuts in House tax bill: It’s a $79,000 tax cut for the top 1%. This is just not what America needs.

Maryland is among the states that would be affected by this provision. More details in the thread below.

Trump's core campaign platform on taxes (tips, overtime, car loan interest, senior citizen deductions) receives plenty of media attention despite being a fraction of the House GOP bill. Most of the bill's cost is extending the 2017 tax cuts and continuing massive tax cuts to the wealthy.

CBPP's Samantha Jacoby posted on X explaining how the House Republican tax bill's new federal tax credit to subsidize private school vouchers works: x.com/jacsamoby/st...

The budget bill is not merely a transfer of wealth from poor to rich. It's also, in many ways, a transfer of wealth from young to old, and from future to past. That's because many of the “pay-fors” in this bill disproportionately hurt babies and children. wapo.st/4dj7bNY

Hundreds of thousands of Marylanders would be at risk of losing health coverage and states would face billions in new costs under Republican House members' proposed massive cuts to Medicaid now under consideration. Maryland can't afford this massive step back. 🔗 mdeconomy.org/a-step-forwa...

The House W&M bill includes a slew of tax cuts for wealthy ppl. One glaring omission: an extension of enhanced premium tax credits. And that's a major reason 13.7M would be uninsured per CBO's early look at proposals in the House E&C bill. democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

House Republican plan would harm 4.5 million U.S. citizen children by stripping away their access to the Child Tax Credit if either of their parents file taxes w/o an SSN: cmsny.org/publications...

House W&M bill does nothing for the ~17M kids currently left out of the $2,000 max credit b/c their families’ earnings are too low. Temp. raising the max to $2,500 gives them $0 or zilch, but delivers an additional $500-per-kid to higher-income families. www.cbpp.org/blog/policym...

The House Ways and Means tax bill released today is skewed in favor of rich people, is even more costly than the original 2017 law, and fails to deliver for working-class families and small businesses. A thread 🧵

Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.🧵 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...

Some lawmakers in Congress are pushing huge cuts to food assistance that would force states to cover 10% or more of the cost. These proposals would also make it harder for Marylanders to afford food and harm local businesses and communities. mdeconomy.org/congressiona...

Maryland took a major step toward a fairer and more effective tax code this year thanks to changes that will ensure the wealthy few pay their fair share in taxes. This new revenue will support schools, health care, and many other essential services. itep.org/maryland-bud...

MD renters made the @marylandmatters.org session 2025 winners/losers list – for the wrong reason! Renters lost this session because of the Senate’s commitment to siding with landlords + developers. That’s why we must build our movement and come back better than ever in 2026! Join us bit.ly/JoinRUM

State and congressional district data on how many people would be at risk of losing some or all of their benefits under proposed expansion of #SNAP’s work requirement are available in our latest analysis @katiebergh.bsky.social: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...