Senate GOP Unveil Long-Awaited SNAP Proposals for Trump Bill

Senate Plan Would Lower Burden of Cost Shift to States for Food Stamps

The Agriculture section of the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill, like the House version that passed last month 215-214, would create the possibility that states for the first time would shoulder some of the cost of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits starting in 2028. But unlike the House version, the Senate’s language would allow states an opportunity to avoid paying anything if they hit an efficiency benchmark, Booz…

President Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' raising concerns about future of SNAP benefits and food insecurity

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are one step closer to making President Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' federal law. "It's going to impact farmers, grocery store owners, and really all around it's going to impact a lot of folks," said Austin Prickett. Austin Prickett is the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. Governor Stitt quietly signs several Education bills Reg…

U.S. Senate GOP tries to ease the pain for states in sharing costs of SNAP benefits • West Virginia Watch

At a farm market in St. Petersburg, Florida, SNAP recipients were able to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards for food. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA).WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans will propose more moderate changes to the major federal food assistance program than their House counterparts, Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman said Wednesday, detailing a provision in a giant tax and spending cut bill that would penalize states …

Another GOP Senator 'Nervous' About The Big Beastly Bill

Anti-poverty campaigners and rights advocates have warned for months that the Republican Party's proposed cuts to federal nutrition assistance that tens of millions of Americans rely on would harm families as well as hundreds of thousands of jobs and the economies of cities and states across the nation—and on Wednesday one GOP senator appeared to have finally gotten the message. Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) toldPolitico that if the Senate approves…

Senate GOP aims to pare back proposed food stamp work requirements for parents in Trump megabill

The Senate Agriculture Committee is proposing some notable changes to the controversial food stamp provisions in the House-approved version of Republicans’ megabill.

U.S. Senate GOP tries to ease the pain for states in sharing costs of SNAP benefits • Maine Morning Star

At a farm market in St. Petersburg, Florida, SNAP recipients were able to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards for food. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA).WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans will propose more moderate changes to the major federal food assistance program than their House counterparts, Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman said Wednesday, detailing a provision in a giant tax and spending cut bill that would penalize states …