The Budget Reconciliation Act’s Impact on Young Children and Families: Session 1 | Ask Me Anything Office Hour With Experts

On July 4, President Trump signed One Big Beautiful Bill into law, which slashes multiple vital programs that serve children and families, including health care and child nutrition programs. ECFC, Alliance for Early Success, and the Prenatal to 5 (P-5) Network are collaborating to host a funder discussion series to: illuminate the consequences of reconciliation bill and other proposed/enacted cuts/changes affecting P-5 population (both direct and projected indirect impacts); glean lessons learned from the fight; and learn about grantee efforts to advance wins for children and families. Funders will gain a better understand of policy context, topline priorities and the importance of advancing federal and state work in advancing these priorities.

Series Session 1: Ask Me Anything — What’s in the Budget Reconciliation Act for the P-5 population? Overview and Office Hour with Experts
August 28, 2025

ECFC, the Alliance for Early Success, and members of the P-5 Network co-hosted the first discussion in our series on how the Reconciliation Act and impacts at the Federal and State levels. Following a brief overview of the Act’s major provisions, timelines, and implications for children and families – including direct and indirect impacts, breakout rooms offered participants the opportunity to talk with experts from the national and state levels on Medicaid, nutrition, tax policy, and children in immigrant and mixed status families.

Our expert discussants include:

Overview Briefing:

• Melissa Boteach, Chief Policy Officer, Zero to Three
• Danielle Ewen, Policy and Strategy Consultant, Sixth Street Associates

Medicaid & CHIP:

• National: Elisabeth Wright Burak, Senior Fellow, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families
•  State: Rachel Deane, Executive Director, Voices for Virginia’s Children

Nutrition & SNAP:

• National: Crystal FitzSimons, President, Food Research Action Center
•  State: Signe Anderson, Senior Director of Nutrition Advocacy, Tennessee Justice Center

Budget & Tax Policy:

• National: Amy K. Matsui, Senior Director of Income Security, National Women’s Law Center
• State: Amber Wallin, Executive Director, State Revenue Alliance

 Children in Immigrant & Mixed Status Families:

• National: Wendy Cervantes, Director of Immigration and Immigrant Families, Center for Law and Social Policy
• State: Linda Corchado, Children at Risk, Texas