Social Welfare
Committee Probes Automatic Cuts to Early Childhood Program
The House Ways and Means Committee is examining a federal early childhood support program facing an existential threat from deficit-driven automatic...
SNAP Fraud Efforts Examined Amid Benefit Cuts
The House is preparing to examine federal efforts to combat supplemental nutrition assistance fraud just as the Trump administration has moved aggressively...
New Trump Accounts Plan May Favor Higher-Income Families More
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More Tracking Needed to Assess Human Trafficking Programs
Each year, tens of thousands of human trafficking survivors in the United States need access to behavioral health care, including trauma therapy and...
Committee Examines Federal Funding Threats to Territories
More than 3.5 million Americans living in U.S. territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the...
New Trump Budget Ends Decades-Old Hunger Relief Program
A federal program that has delivered 2.5 billion meals and 273 million nights of shelter since 1983 is facing its most direct elimination threat yet. The...
Joint Subcommittee Hearing Signals Broader Agenda
The House Ways and Means Committee has scheduled a joint subcommittee hearing for Wednesday, June 10, at 2:00 p.m. in 1100 Longworth House Office Building,...
Bisignano Will Testify In Hearing About Social Security Crisis
The House Ways and Means Committee's joint Social Security and Work & Welfare subcommittees are set to hear from Social Security Administration Commissioner...
House Mandates Child Care Fund Cutoffs for Repeat Violations
The House passed the No Funds for Repeat Child Care Violations Act on Wednesday, 217–207, with Republicans united and Democrats nearly unanimous in...
Social Security COLA Formula Mismatches Retiree Needs
Every year, a formula buried in federal statute quietly determines whether tens of millions of Americans can keep up with rising prices. The Social Security...
House Advances Anti-Fraud Package and Agriculture Spending Bill
The House cleared H.Res. 1333 on a strict party-line vote Wednesday, opening the floor to a bundle of legislation targeting fraud in child care, student...
House Advances Four-Bill Anti-Fraud Package
The House voted 207-207 Wednesday to advance a package of four bills targeting waste, fraud, and abuse across federal social programs, with every Republican...
Senate Weighs Benefits Cliff Fix Amid GOP-Dem Divide
Why it matters: The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee held a hearing on federal benefits cliffs on Wednesday, June 3, examining how...
Accountability: Oversight On $152 Million to Help Rural Seniors
More than 152 million federal dollars flow each year into programs designed to keep elderly and disabled residents of federally assisted housing out of...
House GOP Says Fraud is Target in Child Care Bill
The H.R. 7726 floor vote landed along a clean partisan line Wednesday, with House Republicans defeating a Democratic motion to recommit the No Funds for...
Senate Advances Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill"
The Senate voted 53–0 along party lines to proceed to the S. 2 reconciliation bill, clearing the procedural hurdle to begin floor debate on the centerpiece...
Benefits Cliffs Trap Workers, Hurt Small Business
Millions of low-wage workers at small businesses across the country face a perverse arithmetic baked into federal policy: accept a raise, lose more in...
USDA Secretary Rollins To Face Congress Over SNAP Cuts
More than 3.5 million Americans have lost food assistance since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect — and the cabinet secretary responsible for...