As the name suggests, the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) helped reinforce Congress’s control over the executive branch’s spending of funds and provided an explicit pathway for the President ...

The long-term outlook for the Social Security trust funds has declined slightly, the latest annual report from the program’s trustees shows. Social Security can pay full benefits for nine more years ...

House Republicans’ budget reconciliation legislation would cut assistance that helps children in families with low incomes get enough to eat, see a doctor when they are sick, and in other ways meet ...

House Republicans’ Extreme Budget Plan Fails Families, Children, and ... ... ...

The Trump Administration and DOGE have proposed eliminating phone access for critical Social Security services, including retirement applications. Millions of seniors would have to seek in-person help ...

Requiring states to pay even a modest portion of SNAP benefits would radically change the program’s funding structure, abandoning the long-standing national commitment to provide low-income households ...

In seeking deep cuts through a fast-track budget process, Republican lawmakers could soon advance proposals that would take away food assistance from low-income families with children or make it ...

Recent proposals from Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks would cut Medicaid by taking coverage away from people who don’t meet unnecessary and burdensome work requirements.

TANF can play a key role in ensuring that eligible families can meet their needs. Although some states increased their cash benefit levels between July 2022 and July 2023 much more can be done to ...

Social Security’s payment accuracy rate is very high — well over 99 percent — and it has many safeguards against improper payments, including rigorous protocols to stop paying benefits to people who ...

Affordable housing is a basic human need, but many families’ incomes aren’t high enough to afford market-rate rents in their neighborhoods. Republican budget proposals could make this worse. Many ...

Republican proposals Congress could consider this year would take away or reduce food assistance from tens of millions of people who need it to afford groceries. A range of proposals, including a menu ...