It directs the House Agriculture Committee to cut at least $230 billion, widely understood as cuts to SNAP, which help millions of families put food on the table. www.cbpp.org/press/statem... - ThreadSky

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sharonparrott.bsky.social • 16 days ago

It directs the House Agriculture Committee to cut at least $230 billion, widely understood as cuts to SNAP, which help millions of families put food on the table. https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/house-republican-budget-would-mean-higher-costs-less-help-for-families-more-tax

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sharonparrott.bsky.social•16 days ago

And it directs the Education & Workforce Committee to cut $330 billion, a target likely to mean making student loans more expensive and could even put school meals at risk too. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/13/house-budget-committee-plans-cut-330b-higher-ed-funding

sharonparrott.bsky.social•16 days ago

These figures are minimums or “floors” – meaning that the committees must cut at least that amount and may cut more, but they cannot cut less. And a change made in the budget committee makes deeper cuts more likely. https://x.com/jacsamoby/status/1891909112998346947

sharonparrott.bsky.social•16 days ago

At the same time, the House budget resolution sets a path to use these cuts to pay for trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

sharonparrott.bsky.social•16 days ago

It is remarkable that policymakers could put forward an agenda that simultaneously raises costs, takes health care away from people, increases poverty and hardship, makes income inequality worse, and increases the deficit.

gripnoir.bsky.social•15 days ago

And then lie to their constituents.

sharonparrott.bsky.social•16 days ago

Policymakers who don’t want to take the country in this direction should demand that their leaders start over -- not put their hopes on some theoretical escape valve down the road. https://gonzales.house.gov/2025/2/rep-tony-gonzales-build-a-budget-that-works-for-the-people-not-against-them

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