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Perhaps you've seen the news. State officials this month released new projections showing a continued — and worrying — drop in revenue. So many numbers, so much spin. How to make sense of it all? We're here to help. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Perhaps you've seen the news. State officials this month released new projections showing a continued — and worrying — drop in revenue. So many numbers, so much spin. How to make sense of it all? We're here to help. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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If there’s one thing everybody agrees on, it’s that the tax cuts the Legislature has passed over the last handful of years were definitely going to reduce state revenue. That was the line yesterday from REC members, who met to sign off on new revenue projections.
Iowa's fiscal outlook continues to worsen.
Robin Opsahl of Iowa Capital Dispatch reports on yesterday's meeting of the Revenue Estimating Conference. The state is expected to bring in about $1.3 billion less in revenue than spending approved for FY2026.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/17/p...
Robin Opsahl of Iowa Capital Dispatch reports on yesterday's meeting of the Revenue Estimating Conference. The state is expected to bring in about $1.3 billion less in revenue than spending approved for FY2026.
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/17/p...
Panel predicts 9% drop in Iowa state tax revenue in current fiscal year
Robin Opsahl: The new projections have increased the expected gap between the state’s income and spending to $1.3 billion for FY 2026.
www.bleedingheartland.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
If there’s one thing everybody agrees on, it’s that the tax cuts the Legislature has passed over the last handful of years were definitely going to reduce state revenue. That was the line yesterday from REC members, who met to sign off on new revenue projections.
Our statement on passage of the federal reconciliation bill
www.commongoodiowa.org/policy-areas...
www.commongoodiowa.org/policy-areas...
House, Senate slash health and food assistance for Iowans
Iowa members of the House and Senate backed budget legislation that barely passed but will cut health care and nutrition for millions of Americans and thousands of Iowans, all to make huge, debt-drivi...
www.commongoodiowa.org
July 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our statement on passage of the federal reconciliation bill
www.commongoodiowa.org/policy-areas...
www.commongoodiowa.org/policy-areas...
The U.S. is debating the federal budget bill, which will cut thousands of Iowans off #Medicaid and SNAP, right now. How many people are at risk of losing health care and food assistance in your county?
Explore our interactive data tool here: www.commongoodiowa.org/data/medicai...
Explore our interactive data tool here: www.commongoodiowa.org/data/medicai...
July 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The U.S. is debating the federal budget bill, which will cut thousands of Iowans off #Medicaid and SNAP, right now. How many people are at risk of losing health care and food assistance in your county?
Explore our interactive data tool here: www.commongoodiowa.org/data/medicai...
Explore our interactive data tool here: www.commongoodiowa.org/data/medicai...
Iowa is home to two of those House Rs who could make all the difference.
July 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Iowa is home to two of those House Rs who could make all the difference.
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Senate Rs voted to pass a bill that wld raise food & health care costs on families, increase hunger & take health coverage away from millions of ppl while doubling down on tax cuts for the wealthy. House Rs must stand up for their communities & reject it. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
House Should Reject Senate Republican Bill That Is Even Worse Than Already Harmful House Version in Important Ways | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Following a series of middle-of-the-night backroom deals, and less than an hour after the final language was unveiled, Senate Republicans voted to pass a bill that would raise food and health care cos...
www.cbpp.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Senate Rs voted to pass a bill that wld raise food & health care costs on families, increase hunger & take health coverage away from millions of ppl while doubling down on tax cuts for the wealthy. House Rs must stand up for their communities & reject it. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
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The Senate version of the Medicaid work requirement in the "OBBB" doubles down and worsens a bad policy advanced by the House.
It also gives the Trump Administration enormous leverage to protect their Governor friends and punish their enemies.
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It also gives the Trump Administration enormous leverage to protect their Governor friends and punish their enemies.
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June 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Senate version of the Medicaid work requirement in the "OBBB" doubles down and worsens a bad policy advanced by the House.
It also gives the Trump Administration enormous leverage to protect their Governor friends and punish their enemies.
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It also gives the Trump Administration enormous leverage to protect their Governor friends and punish their enemies.
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Rural fund is thus a "fig leaf" to placate R Senators concerned about #Medicaid cuts. It's small/capped, temporary while the cuts are permanent, poorly targeted, gives discretion to Trump Admin to send $ to favored states, and may not even go to help rural hospitals actually hurt by the cuts (8/x)
June 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Rural fund is thus a "fig leaf" to placate R Senators concerned about #Medicaid cuts. It's small/capped, temporary while the cuts are permanent, poorly targeted, gives discretion to Trump Admin to send $ to favored states, and may not even go to help rural hospitals actually hurt by the cuts (8/x)
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Every major bill language release is happening under the cover of night. Tracks since the bill is so unpopular.
Are Senators really going to set millions of families backwards by taking health coverage & food asst away from them? Is that why they got into politics? Really?
Are Senators really going to set millions of families backwards by taking health coverage & food asst away from them? Is that why they got into politics? Really?
The Senate is barreling toward a vote on an unfinished bill that wld take away health coverage & food assistance from millions, raise families’ costs, & make ppl in our nation worse off. There’s still time for senators to say no to this bill. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
Senate Republicans Can Still Abandon Disastrous, Rushed Reconciliation Bill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Senate is barreling toward a vote on a still-not-finished bill that would take away health coverage and food assistance from millions of people who need it, raise families’ costs, and make a large...
www.cbpp.org
June 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Every major bill language release is happening under the cover of night. Tracks since the bill is so unpopular.
Are Senators really going to set millions of families backwards by taking health coverage & food asst away from them? Is that why they got into politics? Really?
Are Senators really going to set millions of families backwards by taking health coverage & food asst away from them? Is that why they got into politics? Really?
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We don't yet have a Congressional Budget Office score for the Senate's version of the budget reconciliation bill. But, if I had to guess, the Medicaid cuts will be larger than the $793 billion in the House bill.
June 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We don't yet have a Congressional Budget Office score for the Senate's version of the budget reconciliation bill. But, if I had to guess, the Medicaid cuts will be larger than the $793 billion in the House bill.
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The truth is clear — the Senate Republican reconciliation bill will hurt people in every state if enacted. Senators who vote for it are responsible for its impact ⬇️
June 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The truth is clear — the Senate Republican reconciliation bill will hurt people in every state if enacted. Senators who vote for it are responsible for its impact ⬇️
97,000 people equals nearly the entire population of the city of Davenport or Dubuque County. These are not modest cuts -- they will hurt every community in our state.
16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 97,000 people in Iowa.
Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.
Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.
June 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
97,000 people equals nearly the entire population of the city of Davenport or Dubuque County. These are not modest cuts -- they will hurt every community in our state.
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House Republicans passed a budget that would kick millions of children and seniors off their health care, gut SNAP food assistance and more.
Any member of Congress who votes for this bill is voting to betray working people—and we won’t forget. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Any member of Congress who votes for this bill is voting to betray working people—and we won’t forget. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
May 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
House Republicans passed a budget that would kick millions of children and seniors off their health care, gut SNAP food assistance and more.
Any member of Congress who votes for this bill is voting to betray working people—and we won’t forget. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Any member of Congress who votes for this bill is voting to betray working people—and we won’t forget. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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CBO data & other analyses make the House R agenda’s harmful impact crystal clear: it would raise costs on millions of families across the country, making it harder for them to meet basic needs — while showering ever larger tax breaks on the wealthy. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
May 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
CBO data & other analyses make the House R agenda’s harmful impact crystal clear: it would raise costs on millions of families across the country, making it harder for them to meet basic needs — while showering ever larger tax breaks on the wealthy. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
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The House of Representatives, the people elected to protect Americans and our children, have voted to sacrifice babies for billionaires.
May 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The House of Representatives, the people elected to protect Americans and our children, have voted to sacrifice babies for billionaires.
Overnight, the U.S. House passed a budget bill that would slash Medicaid, SNAP and the ACA marketplace -- and shower the wealthiest Americans with big tax breaks. Read Executive Director Anne Discher's statement here: www.commongoodiowa.org/policy-areas...
May 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Overnight, the U.S. House passed a budget bill that would slash Medicaid, SNAP and the ACA marketplace -- and shower the wealthiest Americans with big tax breaks. Read Executive Director Anne Discher's statement here: www.commongoodiowa.org/policy-areas...
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The House Republican bill would give huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations while leaving behind or raising costs for millions of working families.
Here are some of the impacts: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Here are some of the impacts: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
By the Numbers: House Republican Tax Agenda Favors the Wealthy and Leaves Millions of Working Families Behind | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The House Republican reconciliation bill would give huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations while leaving behind or raising costs for millions of working families......
www.cbpp.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The House Republican bill would give huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations while leaving behind or raising costs for millions of working families.
Here are some of the impacts: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Here are some of the impacts: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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The breakdown of the Republican tax cuts are in.
If your household makes over $1 million, you'll get a $90,000 tax break.
If you're in the bottom 20% of income-earners, you'll get $90 and have your healthcare and food assistance cut.
Make it make sense.
If your household makes over $1 million, you'll get a $90,000 tax break.
If you're in the bottom 20% of income-earners, you'll get $90 and have your healthcare and food assistance cut.
Make it make sense.
May 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The breakdown of the Republican tax cuts are in.
If your household makes over $1 million, you'll get a $90,000 tax break.
If you're in the bottom 20% of income-earners, you'll get $90 and have your healthcare and food assistance cut.
Make it make sense.
If your household makes over $1 million, you'll get a $90,000 tax break.
If you're in the bottom 20% of income-earners, you'll get $90 and have your healthcare and food assistance cut.
Make it make sense.
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An under-appreciated aspect of a Medicaid work requirement is the enormous administrative expense involved in managing reporting by enrollees of their work hours or eligibility for an exemption.
As Congressional Republicans push for Medicaid work requirements, here’s how it’s going in Georgia:
Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to manage the country’s only Medicaid work requirement program — and sell it to the public.
Only 3% of those eligible have enrolled.
Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to manage the country’s only Medicaid work requirement program — and sell it to the public.
Only 3% of those eligible have enrolled.
The Firm Running Georgia’s Struggling Medicaid Experiment Was Also Paid Millions to Sell It to the Public
Deloitte Consulting is taking in tens of millions in tax dollars to build, manage and market Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program. Yet only 3% of eligible residents have enrolled.
www.propublica.org
May 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
An under-appreciated aspect of a Medicaid work requirement is the enormous administrative expense involved in managing reporting by enrollees of their work hours or eligibility for an exemption.
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The SNAP cuts have grown from a more than 20% cut to SNAP to a roughly 30% cut to SNAP.
The biggest cut to food assistance in history is just getting bigger.
The biggest cut to food assistance in history is just getting bigger.
It has really flown under the radar how the SNAP cuts in the House bill have grown because of farm subsidies.
The House budget assigned $230B in deficit reduction to the Ag committee.
People assumed that meant $230B in SNAP cuts, but now it’s about $300B to make room for $60B in farm subsidies.
The House budget assigned $230B in deficit reduction to the Ag committee.
People assumed that meant $230B in SNAP cuts, but now it’s about $300B to make room for $60B in farm subsidies.
May 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The SNAP cuts have grown from a more than 20% cut to SNAP to a roughly 30% cut to SNAP.
The biggest cut to food assistance in history is just getting bigger.
The biggest cut to food assistance in history is just getting bigger.
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Iowa’s already tapping surpluses — to the tune of $900 million — to balance next year’s budget!
And if they succeed, then widespread cuts to health care, food assistance, S&L services like schools & roads & any number of things that workers & families count on everyday will follow.
NEW: President Trump and congressional Republicans are looking to push off the costs of many federal programs to states, as they scramble for ways to pay for their expensive tax cuts.
States say their budgets already are in trouble
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
States say their budgets already are in trouble
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
May 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Iowa’s already tapping surpluses — to the tune of $900 million — to balance next year’s budget!
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Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.🧵 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
May 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.🧵 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
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Medicaid ensures our child care workforce has access to the health care they need. Massive cuts to Medicaid would put this important lifeline at risk. Read a new brief from NAEYC, @clasp.org, and @georgetownccf.bsky.social: bit.ly/42ZZHMl
May 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Medicaid ensures our child care workforce has access to the health care they need. Massive cuts to Medicaid would put this important lifeline at risk. Read a new brief from NAEYC, @clasp.org, and @georgetownccf.bsky.social: bit.ly/42ZZHMl
Are you the one we're looking for? Common Good Iowa seeks a full-time senior policy advocate to lead the organization’s work promoting equitable tax policy and adequate revenue for public services. Learn more here: www.commongoodiowa.org/about/were-h...
May 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Are you the one we're looking for? Common Good Iowa seeks a full-time senior policy advocate to lead the organization’s work promoting equitable tax policy and adequate revenue for public services. Learn more here: www.commongoodiowa.org/about/were-h...