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The Latest Breaking News from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Over 700,000 Kids Cut Off From Food Aid in 12 States as Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Bites

Over 700,000 children in the US have lost food support due to new legislation, with Arizona and Texas experiencing significant reductions amid rising unemployment.

International Business Times UK

Trump vowed to boost Black business. Critics say he's failed so far

"When the economy weakens, Black households are usually the first to feel the effects," a researcher says.

Axios

Section 8 Housing Assistance in Jeopardy From Proposed Cuts and Restrictions

Trump and Republican lawmakers want steep funding cuts, while new eligibility rules from HUD would imperil housing for millions of people.

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Trump Said He’d Protect Social Security–Here’s What’s Happening So Far

If there's one thing that all politicians seem to agree on: protecting Social Security. But as always in politics, the hopes and dreams don't always play out

GOBankingRates

Did Hakeem Jeffries overstate share of veterans using food stamps?

Evidence shows Jeffries’s statement that about 20 percent of veteran households rely on food stamps is mostly false.

Al Jazeera

What we know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead

The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers is an escalation of the president’s crackdown on people who were legally allowed to live in the U.S. under programs instituted by his predecessor

The Independent UK

Plans to Extend and Expand Trump-Era Tax Cuts Would Largely Benefit the Wealthy

Though most Americans think the rich don’t pay their fair share, conservatives still want to lower their taxes.

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The Return of Trickle-Down Economics

In Kansas, Mississippi and other states, tax cuts for the wealthy could bring devastating reductions to education, health and other vital programs.

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Texans receiving federal food assistance caught in crosshairs of congressional funding fight

More than 225,000 Texans could get turned away from the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children next year unless Congress allocates more money for the program, advocates and the White House warns. But partisan divisions are obscuring the path forward on government funding.

The Texas Tribune

House passes debt ceiling bill just days before deadline – as it happened

The bill has reached the crucial 218 threshold to pass – though some Republicans may attempt to derail the process

The Guardian - US

The debt limit fight is a 'game of chicken' that only has one loser: The U.S. economy

There could be serious economic damage in the U.S. and elsewhere if the debt ceiling fight nears the default deadline.

Fortune

As public health emergency ends, pandemic-era support programs have already been fading away

The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country’s formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic

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