With the Social Security Administration already experiencing staff shortages, any further reductions in workforce will exacerbate claims backlogs and increase wait times.

This brief focuses on the effects on providers, through reductions in health care spending and increases in uncompensated care, under the scenario where all states drop the ACA Medicaid expansion in response to the loss of the enhanced FMAP.

Addressing the housing crisis will require leveraging the federal government’s many tools, including the tax code, the largest source of government investment in housing. Lawmakers have several opportunities to do so in the upcoming tax package.

Layoffs at the Federal Housing Administration will diminish the agency’s capacity to support affordable homeownership, especially in low-income, affordable, suburban, and rural communities.