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Robert Greenstein

Robert Greenstein is the founder and President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.  He is considered an expert on the federal budget and a range of domestic policy issues, including anti-poverty programs and various aspects of tax and health care policy.

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US President Donald Trump signs executive orders extending coronavirus economic relief, during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 8, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump COVID-19 Executive Actions Woefully Inadequate, Legally Dangerous

Under our constitutional system, the President and Congress together—not the President acting alone—have the power to appropriate funds and decide how to use them.

Robert Greenstein ·

It doesn’t raise SNAP benefit levels even though 26 million adults reported that their households, which include millions of children, often or sometimes didn’t have enough to eat in the last seven days, according to Census data from early July. (Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

Counting the Many Ways the GOP Senate Covid-19 Relief Plan Would Fail Struggling Families and the Economy

The Senate Republican proposal fails to come close to meeting the scale and nature of the challenges we face.

Robert Greenstein ·

Trump Budget Offers Stark Vision We Cannot Afford to Ignore

While tens of millions of struggling Americans must reduce their already modest standards of living, this budget would widen inequality, worsen poverty and hardship, and further divide the country

Robert Greenstein ·

I Have Never Seen Lawmakers So Deeply Hurt So Many of Their Own Constituents

With Trumpcare approval, House vote to take health care coverage away from millions and make it less affordable, skimpier, or both for millions more

Robert Greenstein ·

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