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President Trump’s spending bill could cost low-income El Pasoans $1,200 a year, CBO finds

Trump’s spending bill will cut aid for low-income families, costing most $1,200 yearly, while boosting wealthy incomes by $13 ...

2.4 million people expected to lose food stamps after Trump agenda law broadened work requirements, CBO says

Some 2.4 million fewer Americans, including families with children, are forecast to receive food stamps benefits in an ...

CBO finds health agency cuts would result in fewer new drugs

Potential NIH and FDA cuts could lower the number of new drugs that come to market in the next three decades, according to a ...

CBO projects ‘big, beautiful bill’ would add $5 trilllion to deficit if temporary tax cuts extended

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) informed Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in a letter ...
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Congressional Budget Office Reports More Than 2.7 Million Americans Will Lose SNAP Benefits

Finally, the new law mandates that updates to the package that underlies SNAP benefits cannot raise costs, which will lead to lower average monthly benefits. By 2034, average benefits will be $213 per ...

10 million more people will be uninsured because of Trump’s mega-package, CBO forecasts

The sweeping tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 is expected to leave 10 ...

Bondi: Man who threw sandwich at CBO officer worked at DOJ

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the man who threw a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C ...

Budget office says GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ will make rich richer, poor poorer

The Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” will make the poorest Americans even poorer, while padding the wallets of the highest earners the most, according to an analysis released Monday by ...