Social Safety Net Cuts Issue Explainer
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Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Head Start Funds, Watchdog Finds
newyorktimes.com | The Trump administration illegally withheld funding from a roughly $12 billion federal child care program known as Head Start, according to congressional investigators, who said that President Trump and his top aides had wrongly interrupted the flow of money enacted by Congress.
How Trump’s Spending Bill Helps The Rich Buy Their Private Jets
forbes.com | A little-discussed portion of the billionaire President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill" hands a lucrative break to ultrawealthy Americans in the form of a tax policy for private jet purchases.
H.H.S. Reverses Decision to Cut $2 Billion for Mental Health and Addiction Services
newyorktimes.com | Less than 24 hours after the Trump administration informed more than 2,000 addiction and mental health programs nationwide that it was immediately terminating almost $2 billion of their funding, the administration reversed course and reinstated the money.
How cutting the food safety net threatens the public safety net
TheHill.com | Cuts to SNAP are bad for public safety
Losing Medicaid and Crime
National Bureau of Economic Research | Analyzing the impact of losing Medicaid and an increase in crime.