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Though some of the details of the OBBBA were altered in the Senate from its original House-passed version, the overall impact remained largely the same: tax cuts for the rich, little change for the middle class, and punishing cuts for the poor.

In H.R. 1, the federal reconciliation bill, the federal government shirks its responsibility to Georgians, leaving the state to continue to support Georgians with fewer resources.

The passage of the inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill” is a loss for the country, not just because of immediate cost and economic harm it will cause families but because of the future we’re giving up. Slashing funding for programs that support individual and community well-being in order to cut taxes for the wealthy elite will most directly and immediately harm households with the fewest resources, but ultimately, everyone will lose out on a better future.  

Today, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies officially launched its 2025 Tax Policy Advisory Committee. This committee will play a critical role in informing the Joint Center’s tax research, helping shape public discourse around tax policy issues affecting Black communities, and contributing to efforts to close the racial wealth divide.

Once again, policymakers are pursuing tax cuts and plan to pay for them with budget cuts. All the while, three-quarters of Florida prisons do not provide A/C; over 2.5 million Floridians are without health coverage; thousands of homebound adults and disabled individuals are stuck on long waitlists for home and community-based care; and the state’s affordable housing crisis continues.

It’s been widely acknowledged that the bill’s benefits and burdens will be unequally felt. Yet, within these analyses, impacts on the urban-rural divide are often overlooked. As we detail below, the federal bill is likely to worsen the economic well-being of rural Colorado while providing substantial benefit to affluent suburban and mountain resort communities.

"America needs to fix its broken immigration system. Bipartisan reform attempts have repeatedly failed over more than three decades, as Congress has kicked the can down the road without solving fixable problems. The existing, outdated system fails us all. We must make the immigration system work for America."

Today, Congressional Republicans gave final approval to a federal budget bill that makes historic cuts to social safety net programs, funnels unprecedented resources into mass deportation, and gives trillions in tax cuts largely to the wealthy while ballooning the deficit. Read more.