The 2025 Budget Reconciliation's Impact on People With Low Incomes

CLASP’s blog series "The 2025 Budget Reconciliation's Impact on People With Low Incomes" continues to examine the policies put forward that would affect children, families, and communities with low incomes. The next three installments, published this week, focus on hearings in the House of Representatives' Ways & Means, Agriculture, and Energy & Commerce Committees.

Reconciliation Changes to SNAP Would Disproportionately Harm Black and Brown Communities and Families with Low Incomes

Teon Hayes examines several concerning changes to how SNAP is administered and who is eligible for the program, all of which would directly impact families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities, as well as communities of color. 

Eligible People Will Lose Medicaid Coverage Through Reconciliation Process

Suzanne Wikle details how proposals to introduce work requirements, shift costs to states and individuals, and increase red tape would put millions of people at risk of losing Medicaid coverage.

House Ways & Means Reconciliation Proposal Forsakes Everyday People to Benefit the Wealthy

Ashley Burnside takes a closer look at the proposed tax package, which has the potential to greatly widen the country's wealth gap, make drastic cuts to critical health and nutrition programs, and enforce harmful restrictions against immigrants.