Overall Resources:

• Real People, Real Pain: The Deadly Cost of Washington’s Cuts, CHN
• Shutdown and Budget Resource Library, CHN
• First Focus on Children’s statement on SNAP
• The 2025 Federal Government Shutdown and What it Means for Social Safety Net Program Recipients, NASW
• Press Release on Preliminary Injunction on the RIFs, AFSCME
• Shutdown Report: State Tracker

Early Childhood Programs:

• Attacks on Head Start are Part of a Sustained Strategy to Undermine Progress for Families with Low Incomes: A Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Eliminate the Program, NWLC
• NWLC Applauds Nationwide Injunction Halting Trump Administration’s Illegal Attempt to Deny Immigrant Children Access to Head Start
• White House and Congress Manufactured a Crisis that Threatens Jobs, Food Assistance, and Head Start and Will Increase Health Care Costs, CLASP
• See How the Government Shutdown Impacts Head Start By State, NHSA
• Extended Government Shutdown Puts 65,152 Head Start Children and Families at Risk, NHSA

Heating Assistance:

• Winter Outlook: Home Heating Expenditures Projected to Increase by 7.6%,
• States Call for Utilities to Suspend Shut-Offs During Government Shutdown Until LIHEAP Funds Are Released, NEADA
• Millions at Risk as Government Shutdown Freezes Funds for a Critical Heating Program, Time Magazine
• What Are Benefits Enrollment Centers (BECs)?, NCOA

Protecting Nutrition Programs:

• Trump Administration Won’t Use Emergency Funds for Food Stamps During Shutdown, NYT
• The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Play: Starving Americans to Secure Democrats’ Submission, Ms. Magazine
• Political Will and Administrative Priorities, FRAC
• A Behind the Scenes Look at SNAP, FRAC
• SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past, CBBP
• Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims, CBBP
• Millions face losing SNAP benefits as shutdown continues with no end in sight, PBS Newshour
• The Trump Administration Has the Power and Legal Obligation To Pay SNAP Benefits During the Shutdown, CAP
• What You Need to Know About SNAP and WIC if the Government Shutdown Continues, The Arc
• Democrats plan to sue over food aid as GOP splits on legislative patch, Politico
• No plans for SNAP patch in House, Johnson says, Politico
• States sue over Trump administration suspending food benefits during shutdown, Reuters
• MAGA Uses Hunger as a Political Weapon, The Contrarian
• 44 National Organizations Send Letter to White House Urging Additional Emergency Funds for WIC, NWA
• Monitoring the Government Shutdown, NCA
• Federal Government Shutdown and 2025 Federal Government Shutdown FAQs, SNA

Protecting Health Coverage and Other Basic Needs Programs

• 300,000 Lawfully Present Immigrants Will Be Newly Ineligible for Health Care Help in This Open Enrollment Period, NILC
• Getting Ready for Open Enrollment, Families USA
• Congress’ Failure To Extend Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Will Greatly Increase Health Insurance Costs for Small-Business People, CAP
• Open Enrollment, Closed Doors, CAP
• ACA Insurers Are Raising Premiums by an Estimated 26%, but Most Enrollees Could See Sharper Increases in What They Pay KFF
• ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire, KFF

Other Topics:

• OBBA Impacts By State, PBN
• Early Childhood Poverty: A Lasting Impact on Babies’ Health and Development, Zero to Three
• Financial Insecurity in the Nonprofit Workforce, Independent Sector
• “Differential Privacy” in the U.S. Census: Protecting Individual Data Confidentiality; Preserving Accuracy, LCCHR
• Civil Rights Groups Will Not Be Silenced, LCCHR