Medicaid cuts will hurt Maine’s most vulnerable

How Trump’s budget would hit America’s poorest families hardest

White House takes aim at education, housing and food programs for millions of poor women and children

Republican budget plan could pour sand back into licensing agency gears

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS), the agency responsible for licensing about 200 credentials, including in health care, business and the trades, would face a 31% staff cut starting Oct. 1 under the budget Republicans advanced in committee last week. The reduction would mean longer wait times for licenses and worse call center customer service, DSPS Communications Director John Beard said.During Thu…

Budget bill would hammer struggling Alabama families - The Demopolis Times

GUEST EDITORIAL Cuts to SNAP, health coverage would raise costs, increase hunger and hardship The U.S. House voted 215-214 Thursday for a budget bill that would make basic needs like food and health care more expensive for millions of families through severe cuts to food assistance, Medicaid and other human services. These funding cuts would finance efforts to renew or expand tax cuts for wealthy people and highly profitable corporations. Alabam…

Republican budget cuts target America’s most vulnerable

Once champions of fiscal responsibility, Republican leadership now pushes policies that would add trillions to the deficit while cutting essential services for America's poorest citizens

Republican budget bill would strike blow to clean energy efforts in Colorado

Layoffs could be coming to Namaste Solar, a Colorado-based company that installs solar panels on homes and businesses, if the Republicans’ federal budget bill is made law in its current form. That’s because the legislation would cut off millions of dollars of funding for clean energy projects, including taxpayer credits for installing solar panels on houses. And that would almost sink Namaste’s business in Denver and Boulder. “They don’t want an…

The war on poor kids

Late Friday afternoon, the Trump administration released the details of its 2026 budget request. The 1,223-page document proposes slashing around $163 billion in non-defense spending. That isn't nearly enough to offset the trillions in tax cuts the administration is simultaneously seeking in the reconciliation bill. But the spending cuts would have severe consequences for the most vulnerable Americans, especially poor children.For example, the T…