The House will spend the next few weeks grappling with the details of the GOP’s reconciliation bill—the legislative vehicle to enact more tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by everyone else. Many of our priorities are under attack. Slashing Medicaid/CHIP, the fourth-largest source of support for K-12 public schools, would hurt every student—not just […]

  The GOP’s legislative agenda—deficit-swelling tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by slashing services for students, educators, and families—inched forward last week. In a narrow, near party-line vote, the House adopted a budget framework identical to that passed by the Senate. Now comes the truly hard part: Senate and House Republicans must agree on which programs to […]

  In an effort to fulfill the administration’s wish for a single, large, filibuster-proof bill, the Senate passed a revised budget framework that provides more tax breaks to billionaires by taking from everyone else—especially students, educators, and working families. Despite GOP claims to the contrary, the numbers show that a big share of those spending […]