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More guns, less butter: How massive federal funding increases for ICE are costing us all
January 20, 2026 • Carly Eckstrom
Federal Budget, Federal Issues, Immigration
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and SNAP, our country’s core basic needs programs. These cuts paid primarily for two things: 1) a tax package that gives the biggest tax cuts to the nation’s wealthiest, and 2) an extreme spending increase on immigration enforcement.
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Federal Freeze of Child Care, TANF, other social service funding could leave Minnesotans and their families in the cold
January 15, 2026 • Carly Eckstrom
Child Care, Federal Budget, Federal Issues
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Who receives the Renter’s Credit? (TY 2023)
January 15, 2026 • Haleigh Sinclair
Minnesota Taxes, Tax Credits for Minnesotans and Families
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Investing in affordable child care so Minnesota families can find the care they need
Great Start Affordability Scholarships are a new policy solution designed to lower monthly child care costs for Minnesota families. Find out how they work to make quality child care more accessible and push to create equitable, living wages for early childhood educators.
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The Minnesota Budget Project is a research and advocacy organization that pursues policy solutions so that all Minnesotans can thrive, regardless of who they are or where they live. Established more than 25 years ago, the Minnesota Budget Project is a nonpartisan project of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Our work is centered on equitable and just public policies so that all Minnesotans have what they need to pursue full and free lives. We focus primarily on tax, budget, and economic policies.








