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Millions of low-income Americans, including families with children, could lose their food stamp benefits under House Republicans’ newly passed tax and spending cuts package, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday.
New Jersey would lose $3.6 billion in Medicaid funding and $200 million for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, under bill passed by House. The bill now heads to the U.S. Senate.
Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House would rearrange the U.S. social safety
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has terminated 17 projects under a foreign aid program that funds school meals for children in low-income countries, according to an email sent from USDA to congressional staff.
Proposed cuts to the country’s largest food aid program could slash benefits currently going to one in six Oregonians or shift more than $1 billion in program costs to the state in each two-year budget cycle.
Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed the House of Representatives early this morning, and the president couldn’t be more thrilled about being one step closer to kicking millions of Americans off their health care coverage and food assistance programs.
Tighter work requirements for SNAP save $92 billion in spending — and force 3.2 million people out of the program.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Thursday that she had signed waivers from Iowa and Indiana that would allow the states to bar the purchase of some processed foods and sugary drinks with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
The massive budget bill passed by Republicans in the House and favored by President Donald Trump would result in sharp cuts to food benefits for the neediest Americans. Here’s how it could play out in your state.