#social-safety-net

#social-safety-net

One political conversation with a gay friend that I'll never forget occurred the night before Election Day in 2016, where my friend told me that he hoped Donald Trump would win so that "The Revolution" would finally happen. The idea, I suppose, was that Trump would make things so bad that it would finally wake up the proletariat of the world, and it would unite in the ultimate class war to overthrow the messed-up liberal world order,

From invading American cities with ICE and the military to the destruction of longstanding government institutions, there's a lot to be concerned about, and it can be difficult to keep it all in perspective. Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, has been closely following and documenting Trump's abuses of power and his attacks on different parts of the federal government. He said there are a couple different categories of harm you can look at while tracking the damage Trump has done.

July 30 marks the 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid's establishment, yet Medicaid faces unprecedented cuts by Republicans aiming to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by U.S. President Donald Trump is the most sweeping legislation in modern U.S. history, implementing huge tax cuts for the rich and massive cuts to the social safety net.

Not all safety-net benefits and services are in entitlement programs that can be cut via budget-reconciliation measures. The Urban Institute defines five non-entitlement programs as part of the social-safety net: WIC, TANF, child-care subsidies, LIHEAP, and public housing.

The Senate bill would speed up elimination of clean energy tax breaks and make permanent a series of business tax breaks that were temporary in the House version.

As his Republican allies in Congress continued work on a major reconciliation bill that would offer sweeping tax cuts to the nation's corporate giants and wealthiest Americans while gutting Medicaid and food assistance programs for the poor.