"One Big Beautiful Bill" cuts SNAP by $186 billion over a decade (July 4, 2025 )
July 4, 2025 — President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, enacting what analysts and the Congressional Budget Office describe as the largest cuts to SNAP in the program's history — approximately $186 billion over ten years — through a combination of benefit reductions, expanded work requirements, new cost shifts to states, and stripped eligibility for entire categories of recipients.
For the first time in the program's 60-year history, states will be required to pay a portion of SNAP benefits — up to 15 percent — beginning in October 2027 for states with elevated error rates, and the state share of administrative costs rises from 50 to 75 percent. Work requirements now extend to adults up to age 64, and refugees, asylees, trafficking survivors, and other humanitarian protection holders who had long qualified for the program lose eligibility. Future adjustments to the Thrifty Food Plan, which determines benefit levels, are frozen — reducing the real value of benefits over time and also affecting Summer EBT and TEFAP.
Anti-hunger researchers estimated that roughly 6 billion meals a year would no longer be provided as a result of the law. Food banks were explicit that the charitable food sector cannot substitute for the federal program at anything approaching its former scale. USDA Secretary Rollins called the law a "win for farmers, ranchers, rural communities, and American taxpayers."
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