In May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a proposed rule that would upend the federal grantmaking process by ...

Everyone deserves affordable, safe energy to meet their everyday needs. But average electricity bills have risen close to 6 ...

Congress has passed a short-term funding measure to fund the government into December, but it still must pass full-year funding bills for fiscal year 2027. While the Senate has not yet introduced any ...

New research finds that 1 in 3 people applying for SNAP benefits are denied not because they are ineligible, but because they don’t make it through the complex process.

A “pocket rescission” involves transmitting a rescission request so late in the fiscal year that the funds would expire ...

The government funding deadline is fast approaching. With the Trump Administration’s continued efforts to impound and rescind funding, complicating Congress’s ability to reach an agreement on funding ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs. It ...

SNAP participation nationwide fell by over 5 million people (nearly 13 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and June 2026, based on the latest month of data.

Between the Republican reconciliation law’s July 2025 enactment and June 2026 (the last month with data on all states): These participation declines began before some of the major changes from the ...

To create the federal rental assistance factsheets for the 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the United States, CBPP analyzed survey data from the American Community Survey (ACS) ...