The 2025 Budget Reconciliation's Impact on People With Low Incomes

As Congress works to advance the proposed budget reconciliation bill of 2025, CLASP’s new blog series "The 2025 Budget Reconciliation's Impact on People With Low Incomes" examines the policies put forward that have resonance for children, families, and communities with low incomes. New blogs will be added as more committees complete their markup process. The first two installments, published this week, focus on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Education & Workforce Committee's recent proposals:

House Judiciary Committee’s Reconciliation Bill Would Harm Immigrant Families and U.S. Citizen Children 

Juan Carlos Gomez takes a closer look at the House Judiciary Committee’s proposed legislation, which would increase ICE authority and expand detention facilities, among other harmful policies. 

How the Education & Workforce Committee’s Reconciliation’s Bill Would Harm Students with Low Incomes

Christian Collins examines three particularly concerning sections of legislation proposed by the House Education & Workforce Committee: changes to how student loan programs operate, the elimination of existing income-based plans for loan forgiveness, and increased program requirements for Pell Grant recipients.