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May 9, 2025 | Blog Post | Christian Collins

How the Education & Workforce Committee’s Reconciliation Bill Would Harm Students with Low Incomes

The details of this proposal make it clear that the GOP is sacrificing the future of the country for working people to fund planned tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.

May 7, 2025 | Blog Post | Juan Carlos Gomez

House Judiciary Committee’s Reconciliation Bill Would Harm Immigrant Families and U.S. Citizen Children

This legislation would significantly increase the authority of ICE; expand detention facilities, including family detention facilities; and impose exorbitant fees for immigrants who are trying to stay in or adjust their status in the United States.

April 30, 2025 | Blog Post | Suzanne Wikle

Medicaid Cuts Come Into Focus: Millions Stand to Lose Health Care

As Congress considers slashing up to $880 billion from Medicaid, new details reveal plans to impose harmful “work requirements,” eliminate eligibility for legal immigrants, and restructure funding through risky per capita caps. These proposed changes will lead to mass disenrollment

April 11, 2025 | Press Release

CLASP Board Names Wendy Chun-Hoon as Next President

April 11, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – The Board of Trustees of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) announced today that it has chosen Wendy Chun-Hoon as the organization’s next president and executive director. She will assume leadership of the national anti-poverty and…

April 10, 2025 | Press Release | Rricha deCant

U.S. House Passes Budget that Enriches the Wealthy by Slashing Medicaid & SNAP

With this measure, Congressional leaders are attempting to fund tax breaks for the rich and corporations and drive up the deficit through massive Medicaid cuts of $880 billion and SNAP cuts of $230 billion. The proposal would also slash other public benefit programs that people…

April 1, 2025 | Blog Post | Ashley Burnside

Proposed IRS Cuts Will Hurt Taxpayers and Our Economy

This year, the IRS is under threat, and the agency will have less bandwidth and fewer resources to process tax returns and provide support to the taxpayers who need it. Lawmakers should invest in the IRS, not deplete it.

March 28, 2025 | Press Release | Cemeré James

Latest Round of HHS Cuts Will Further Harm Children, Families & People with Low Incomes

CLASP decries the cuts announced yesterday to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These reductions will affect mental health, disabled people, rural communities, vaccines for children, and community health workers who address inequities for people across the lifespan, among others.

February 19, 2025 | Blog Post | Teon Hayes

Putting a Face to the Cuts: The Human Cost of the Budget Resolution

The House Budget Resolution proposes sweeping cuts that would affect the amount of groceries people can buy, the education of our children, and access to life-saving health care.

January 28, 2025 | News Clip | Rricha deCant

Judge pauses Trump’s federal funding freeze as confusion and frustration spread

By Asma Khalid, Franco Ordoñez, Deirdre Walsh, Barbara Sprunt, Ashley Lopez (EXCERPT) Rricha deCant — director of legislative affairs at the Center for Law and Social Policy, which advocates for assistance for people with low incomes — told NPR that it appeared many federal programs…

June 04, 2024 | event | Tiffany Ferrette

CLASP Hosts a House Briefing: “60 Years of Progress and Pitfalls: What’s Next in the War on Poverty”

This briefing will focused on both the achievements and challenges in advancing the War on Poverty’s goals and discuss strategies for eliminating economic and racial injustices.    

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