Over ONE THIRD of California's state budget is made up of federal funds that support Medi-Cal, education, and other vital programs. The recent federal budget act will profoundly impact the state's budget. Read more from @shg29.bsky.social and I here: calbudgetcenter.org/resources/fe...

Last week at CBPP, we focused on the #FederalBudget and #FederalTaxes, #FoodAssistance, #health, #housing, #SocialSecurity, and #StateBudgets and #StateTaxes. www.cbpp.org/blog/in-case...

How many low-income people will lose some or all of their food assistance as a result of the deepest cut to SNAP in history? Here's what we know so far: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Manatt Health and Princeton with updated estimates of the state- and Congressional District-level impact of Senate-passed bill on #Medicaid enrollment and hospital spending cuts: shvs.org/resource/sen...

Shut it down! LA is sick of ICE!

The harm that this bill will do to families across California and the country is profound. Voting for this bill, means voting to take away health care and food assistance from everyday people. #HandsOffSNAP

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...

16 House R’s indicated might vote against ugly bill if contains Medicaid cuts - contact them: Valadao, Bresnahan, Young Kim, Lawler, Ciscomani, Chuck Edwards, Garbarino, Kiggans, Van Drew, Newhouse, Wittman, Miller-Meeks, Bacon, Zach Nunn, Malliotakis, Hurd Source: www.notus.org/congress/the...

Democrats on the House floor are highlighting the reconciliation bill's draconian #SNAP reductions, including massive unfunded mandates that will force states to cough up billions of dollars just to maintain SNAP benefits. What if states can't find the money? Millions of people will go hungry.

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...

Destabilizing rural hospitals is exactly the kind of devastating #Medicaid cut that CA GOP Reps. Young Kim & David Valadao said that they "cannot support." Will they keep their word when the Senate's reverse-Robin-Hood budget bill comes to the House floor? valadao.house.gov/uploadedfile...

DAILY MEMO: The 25th straight day of I.C.E.’s siege of L.A. Topics: - Weekend Taco Stand Raids - Today’s Home Depot Raids - Recommended reading, How to Spot misinformation - Ventura Sheriff is “Glad” that ICE is there - Montebello sets up relief program - Border Patrol fueding? - DOJ

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 bill House Republicans passed last week would be the deepest cut to #SNAP in history. Our new paper explains the 4 ways this bill would take food assistance away from low-income people, including families with kids, seniors, and people with disabilities. Link below ⤵️

States already facing budget pressures in 2025 would be hit with major new costs under Senate Republican plans, straining services communities rely on. See how every state’s fiscal conditions are faring: www.cbpp.org/research/sta...

This is CBO, Congress's non-partisan official scorekeeper, describing how states would react to Republicans' plan to slash federal $ for #SNAP & impose those costs as an unfunded mandate on states. Some states may end a program that puts food on the table for 1 in 5 kids in this country.

Congress is proposing to expand the harsh time limits to SNAP, which limit many participants to 3 months of assistance over 3 years unless they are working. Yet the average unemployment spell lasts over 5 months. Harsher time limits would cut benefits and increase hardship for thousands more!

The Senate's budget plan maintains many harmful provisions to SNAP/CalFresh. Expanded time limits will make family budgets even tighter and put services like child care out of reach for thousands of Californians!!

8 million older adults, caregivers, and parents in every state would be at risk of losing food assistance under a Senate proposal that expands #SNAP's harsh work requirements. See how your state could be impacted under the Senate Ag proposal: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Senator Padilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question. Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.) The Trump regime is out of control.

The House Republican bill would give huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations while leaving behind or raising costs for millions of working families. Here are some of the impacts: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

JUST IN: Our First Look analysis of the @governor.ca.gov's 2025-26 May Revision. Our take: The revised budget harms vulnerable Californians and misses opportunities to raise revenue and guard against federal threats. #CABudget ⚡ We share more here: calbudgetcenter.org/resources/fi...

The stakes: cuts to low-income Americans’ health care and nutrition benefits are basically the same size as the tax cuts for the 2% of households making over $500k annually. The idea that low-income need to pay more for health care and groceries because of the deficit is false.

‼️Congress is pushing an unprecedented cost shift of #SNAP onto states. If California can’t meet the burden of 25% of costs, it could opt out entirely - leaving thousands of low-income families without food aid. This is reckless and dangerous. Learn more here: calbudgetcenter.org/resources/re...

In the weeks ahead, legislative leaders have a chance to push back on @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's harmful proposals and show that California won’t cave to Trump-style cuts. Instead, we can close tax loopholes designed by — and for — the wealthy and profitable corporations.

The carried interest loophole lets rich private equity execs pay lower tax rates by treating their income as capital gains. The GOP's "big, beautiful bill" makes devastating cuts to social programs but leaves this loophole intact — despite Trump promising to end it. Priorities.

More than 4 million kids ages 7 through 17 live with the SNAP participants House Republicans are calling "able-bodied adults without dependents." Without dependents?! When those adults get cut off SNAP, food benefits for the entire family get reduced. That hurts kids. Period.

“These cuts are reckless & unconscionable. This is a betrayal of the Governor’s commitment to CA immigrants, & an abandonment of his legacy, which brought California so close to universal health care,”--our ED & co-chair of #Health4All, @thewallner.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Reminder that income inequality is already staggering in CA (in case anyone forgot!) and the combination of federal tax cuts largely benefiting wealthy people & corporations with spending cuts gutting support for people's basic needs would make this so much worse. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/in...

The upside-down & costly federal tax bill is currently being marked up in the House Ways & Means cmte. According to the Joint Cmte on Taxation, more than 40% of benefits would go to top 5%, and the top 1% alone would get 1/5 of all benefits. www.jct.gov/publications...

Visiting the ER for a broken leg could cost ~$21,328 if someone loses Medi-Cal and becomes uninsured. That’s almost 10 months of rent for a 2bdr apt in LA County. House Republican budget proposal would end #MediCal for millions & drive up the housing crisis. #FightForOurHealth

If federal proposed cuts to Medi-Cal pass, a family in #SanBernardino could have to choose between paying for an inhaler for their kid, or groceries. Medi-Cal is literally the difference between having food on the table or not for CA's children. Healthcare must be protected! #FightForOurHealth

The House Republican Ag bill would take food assistance from parents with kids over 6 & older adults who can’t meet harsh work requirements. Nearly 11M people live in households at risk of losing #SNAP under this provision. State & congressional-district data: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

If Trump's "big, beautiful" reconciliation bill goes through, 13.7 million people will lose their health insurance & even more will become underinsured. Make no mistake, thousands of low-income & working class Americans will die unnecessarily if it passes. We must not allow it.

📢 Reminder: Cutting federal funding for SNAP just means California foots the bill. And if they can’t? Kids go hungry. And California will have to make impossible decisions about the $3 BILLION the state will be forced to address if a cost-shift proposal passes. #HandsOffSNAP #SaveSNAP

Congressional Rs’ plan in the House E&C bill would take away #Medicaid by requiring enrollees to renew twice a year, not annually. This increases state costs and risks eligible people losing coverage. Here are 3 reasons why the proposal is misguided: www.cbpp.org/blog/more-fr...

Hugely important new @urbaninstitute.bsky.social analysis shows that the emerging House bill's combo of 1.) tax cuts tilted to wealthy 2.) cuts to nutrition assistance/health for low-income families make families making under $30k worse off. www.urban.org/research/pub...

How would the $230 billion proposed federal cuts to SNAP impact California families? This graphic shows the groceries a family in Bakersfield would lose out on if their benefits were cut by 20%. CalFresh helps millions of families and children and should be protected!! #SNAP #HandsOffSNAP

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Harmful federal proposals threaten the food security of millions of Californians. Read more in the @calbudgetcenter.org's new report, where my colleague @msaucedo.bsky.social and I outline how "pass the buck" proposals could harm CalFresh. #CalFresh #SNAP calbudgetcenter.org/resources/re...

Today is #EqualPayDay, marking how far into 2025 women have to work in addition to 2024 to earn what men did last year. In CA, women are paid only $0.86 to every $1 a white man makes. While state policymakers have taken action to improve pay transparency and reporting, there is more to be done. 🧵

CalFresh is a vital tool in mitigating poverty across the state. Harmful policies that would reduce benefits would make it harder for millions with low incomes to put food on the table. ⚡ We share more in our latest: calbudgetcenter.org/resources/ca...

Families in states with high rates of food insecurity and poverty and low public investments could be hit hard by Republican plans to shift #SNAP benefit costs to states: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

NEW: @nishinair.bsky.social & I dig into CA's "donor state" status. Bottom line: Californians' 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 generous federal tax contributions should be used to strengthen public services, not to help corporations and the rich avoid paying their fair share of taxes. calbudgetcenter.org/resources/is...