More than 770,000 children lose SNAP benefits after federal changes
ProPublica found that in 12 states, 776,134 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump administration changes to the federal food program. Those children represent 46 percent of the 1,670,011 people who lost benefits across those states; in Arizona the child caseload fell by more than 200,000 since July 2025, a 55 percent decline, and Tennessee reports nearly 100,000 people removed from SNAP. Several state attorneys general and officials are urging Congress to add language to the upcoming Farm Bill to restore eligibility because the cuts are increasing hunger, burdening food banks and small retailers, and shifting costs and administrative strain onto states.
NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.
Paul Rabin41I love how these ghouls always say that they have “lifted these people off of food stamps”, but they actually just denied them the food that they deserve.
Grumpy Zeus31Republicans never fail to abuse children in every horrible way imaginable.
✊🏼 NoFilterBoomer25Republicans want poor people to die.
RN Mayhem16Who is taking all the welfare?
Hittielove212Trump starved millions of children in other countries by withdrawing essential U.S. aid - now he's starving American children.
Dona Dickinson11Hungry kids suffer while he spends our tax dollars on bombs and covering statues in gold. What a cruel demon he is.
Tileman10Y’all need to go interview some of those families Trump cut off and see how their lives have been impacted. Statistics don’t change minds but compelling stories do.
CatCmdr18Old folks cut, too (I think they still count)!
Sailing Steve7Right in line with their hypocritical agenda.
Jack Brand5Taking people off SNAP has Russ Vought written all over it. Trump couldn't tell you what SNAP even stands for. Vought is happy Trump is prancing around having UFC fights and starting wars, while he dismantles everything.
sflubio.bsky.social5And Elon is a trillionaire.
David Marantz4It’s ok, though. That money bought a fraction of a bomb we dropped on Iran to no positive outcome. We also gave a bunch of cash to the drone company the Trump boys are invested in. So all good.
okay7.bsky.social4Depriving hungry children access to food is a goal in the U.S.?
K🤦♀️𝙑4Have all the babies they said. No abortions they said. But also, have all the guns, the industrial pollution and devastated economic environment too. Here’s 1982 wages and praise them for allowing jobs to exist, but also AI will cancel it. They love the uneducated, they vote to hurt themselves.
Tim?3They'll tell their base these numbers are all because of illegals getting benefits which makes the starving of children okay for them.
Franken-Pattern2Denying the most vulnerable in our society food is violence.
Ed Hirschler2Writing off hungry children permits the Clowncarcrash Administration to deny their existence. Of all the horrific acts inflicted on our most vulnerable, axing SNAP tops the list.
Twirled Peas2We're watching massive corruption: insider trading, slush funds, Trump/family grift, wars being started over oil... that's the short list. Meanwhile, the millionaire and billionaire flunkies are starving Americans. 4.3M people with less or no access to food is a tragedy. Cage matches over kids.
dabxdee.bsky.social2The party of family values and pro life, just not your family or your life. Your oppression is their profession...on your tax dollars.
M 💓🏖️2They should pay fairly and then less people will need assistance.
Wolf2He's lifted them out of poverty, that's a direct quote... By kicking them off supplemental nutrition benefits/food stamps
Trump froze funding for food banks, shelters and nonprofits for months. After pressure from Oversight Dems, FEMA confirmed the program is legitimate and will release the money. This is good news, but Americans deserve to know why these funds were held up in the first place.
putawomanincharge.bsky.social5Well, I am certainly unhappy it took this long. We, the people, have been helping The Shelters and Food Banks. It is getting worse by the day.
✙ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐻𝓊𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒾𝓃 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🖇️ ✨ 🌙 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽3The GOP intends to demoralize Americans. Thats why every conceivable slight, injury, debasement, and offense keeps happening.
Mike Check2It makes more sense if you think of freezing the funds as sabotage. The freeze served no functional purpose, it was not enough money to make an impact on any of the ideological pitches from the white house, but it did inflict pain and gum up some crucial operations. Thus the real answer is sabotage.
-Max Edge-2Republican assholery is what's held it up...pure and simple.
A USDA spokesperson did not address ProPublica’s questions about the number of children who have lost access to SNAP. “There is no shortage of resources for the most vulnerable among us, including children,” the spokesperson said. 👀 @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
A Word3from the article: Arizona has seen the nation’s largest percentage decline in SNAP participants; 205,223 children are no longer receiving the benefit since July 2025, a 55% drop. Louisiana had the second largest percent decline among children, 22%. (Mike Johnson of Lousiana is a pretend xristian)
wweiss53.bsky.social2Scrooge says, ''If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. '' The lack of empathy in the dRump administration is beyond Dickensian.
