Fight Hunger and Defend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (UPDATED 6/12)
Updates
June 12, 2025: The Republican-led Senate Agriculture Committee has released their proposed plan for SNAP cuts. While the bill softens some of the cuts proposed in the House version of the bill, it narrows work requirement exceptions, decreases federal funding for program administrative costs, and omits work requirement exemptions for unhoused individuals, veterans, and young people who were previously in foster care.
June 4, 2025: Republicans have repeatedly claimed that slashing social safety net programs like SNAP will improve the nation’s financial wellbeing. However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has released a new analysis of H.R. 1 that estimates the bill will increase budget deficits by $2.4 trillion to finance trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also referred to as food stamps) is the nation’s biggest food assistance program, serving 42 million Americans each month, two thirds of whom are in households with children. The House-approved budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 1, finances tax cuts for the ultra-rich by slashing funding for essential social safety net programs, including $290 billion in SNAP funding.
H.R. 1 not only proposes cutting federal SNAP funding by about 30%—the largest food assistance cut in history—but also increases work requirements for SNAP participants. The Urban Institute estimates that these expanded work requirements could cause up to 5 million families to lose some or all of their monthly benefits. Research on SNAP work requirements has repeatedly shown that these requirements do not increase employment, but instead reduce program enrollment and remove a crucial safety net for struggling families.
Receiving SNAP benefits is associated with a range of positive outcomes, from reduced incidence of child abuse to better health outcomes and lower health care spending. H.R. 1’s proposed SNAP cuts will cause untold suffering, increase food insecurity, and force further cuts to SNAP benefits at the state level.
Urge your senators to reject these harmful cuts and protect food access.
Contacts for this topic:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].
I’m calling to urge [REP/SEN NAME] to oppose the unprecedented SNAP cuts and expansion of SNAP work requirements included in both H.R.1 and in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s proposed budget. I am also concerned that the Senate proposal excludes work requirement exemptions for veterans and unhoused people and forces states to shoulder a greater percentage of administrative costs. SNAP is not a handout, it’s a hand up for people, especially children, who are suffering from poverty and hunger.
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