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One year on, Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' cut health and food aid

newsJul 3, 2026445,662

One year after President Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” on July 4, 2025, the law cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding by about $18.7 billion a year and has already sharply reduced enrollment in Arizona. Arizona child SNAP enrollment fell from about 375,000 in June 2025 to 178,000 in May 2026, and overall state SNAP enrollment dropped from about 910,000 to 452,000 over the same period. The bill reduces the federal share of SNAP administrative costs from 50% to 25% beginning October 2026; Arizona preemptively cut Department of Economic Security staff assigned to eligibility reviews from 1,370 in July 2024 to 880, creating a backlog. In December 2025 more than 18,000 Arizona SNAP applications were more than 30 days old, forcing repeated resubmissions and further delays. The law also ties state liability to an SNAP error rate threshold: Arizona’s 2025 error rate was 10.8 percent, and if it persists the state could face up to $300 million in SNAP costs in fiscal year 2028 because federal payments could fall to covering less than 100 percent of benefits. Harvard researcher Sara Naomi Bleich says the new rules target error rates rather than proven fraud and therefore are unlikely to reduce actual fraud; the combination of funding cuts, staffing reductions, and stricter error-rate rules has already kept eligible families from receiving benefits.

Senate Democrats
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One year post One Big Beautiful Bill passage, 800,000 kids have lost SNAP benefits. Nothing says "pro-family" quite like taking food away from children.

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Chuck Schumer
@schumer.senate.gov

Trump signed the Big Beautiful Bill one year ago, bragging about tax cuts. Instead, it sent health care costs soaring for millions, kicked 800,000 kids off SNAP, and shuttered health care clinics across the country. A huge win for billionaires. A massive loss for working families.

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