Day: October 22, 2025

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Editorial Board Memo: Federal Shutdown’s Impact on SNAP

  By Editorial Board Memo, Penn Policy Center

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on October 22, 2025. To: Editorial Boards, Columnists, Reporters, Legislators and other Interested Parties From: Marc Stier, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Policy Center Re: Impact of the Federal Shutdown on SNAP and other recent pieces on the federal shutdown Date: October 22, 2025 As the federal shutdown continues, an urgent problem has arisen. SNAP recipients, including two million people in Pennsylvania, are at risk of losing their November benefits. But as our research director Laura Beltrán Figueroa points out in a new blog post, reproduced below, the administration clearly has the legal authority to take steps to protect those benefits. Other recent pieces we have written on the shutdown include: An overview of the goals in rejecting the Republican continuing resolution. A summary of the health care issues at stake in the shutdown debate. An overview of federal employees in Pennsylvania at risk. A refutation… Continue reading

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The Continuing Shutdown Fight to Save Health Care and Democracy

  By Blog post, My Work, Penn Policy Center

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on October 22, 2025. October 16, 2025 By Marc Stier The federal shutdown, which began on October 1, 2025, continues. And the fundamental issues have not changed. The Republicans still want to pass a continuing resolution (CR) that would extend the budget from the year that ended on September 30th through sometime in November when, presumably, a full-year budget would be passed. That bill must be approved by a majority of the House and, because of the filibuster, 60 votes in the Senate. To get to those 60 votes, the Republicans need seven Democrats to vote for the CR. Because some Republicans in the House seek cuts to the budget, some Democratic votes may be necessary to pass the bill there as well.  The need for Democratic votes means that this is a unique moment at which Democrats—and perhaps even a few Republicans who… Continue reading

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Federal Shutdown Threatens Health Care for Nearly 1 million Pennsylvanians | Opinion

  By Blog post, My Work, Op-ed, Penn Policy Center, Published Op-Eds

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on October 22, 2025. October 20, 2025 by Marc Stier Originally published on October 15, 2025, at PennLive – Patriot News The dispute about health care is the central reason the federal government is shut down now. Democrats are telling Republicans in Congress that they will not vote for a continuing resolution to fund the government unless Republicans agree to: (1) extend the expanded tax credit subsidies that keep marketplace coverage affordable for most people. (2) reverse the deep cuts to Medicaid that the reconciliation bill, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, imposed. Reversing those cuts is critical to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians. Our state cut the uninsured rate nearly in half over the last decade, falling from 13.6% in 2013 to 7.1% in 2023. The big ugly reconciliation bill and the failure to extend expanded ACA tax credits will reverse… Continue reading

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An Overview of the PA Health Care / Federal Budget Issue

  By Blog post, My Work, Penn Policy Center

Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on October 22, 2025. VIEW IN A PDF READER. FedBudgetHealthcare_FactSheet_10-2025-WEB 1Download Continue reading