Arizona SNAP rolls fall after new paperwork rules, NYT reports
It’s been a year since Donald Trump slashed SNAP funding in his “Big Beautiful Bill.” Here’s how many people have lost food assistance so far.
MiMo20Almost half a million people...WAKE UP, #Florida!!!
Susanne 25th for 4714why is there no data for Georgia?
Chris Maley11#Trump and #MAGA love owning the libs via corruption.
Billionaires ARE the problem10Why is it only class warfare when we want tax the wealthy, but not when the wealthy to vacuum our social benefits into their own bank accounts?
wvmitchell1.bsky.social7The Oregon Food Bank Network recorded 2.9 million pantry and food assistance visits last year.
Mal5This country is broken in so many ways!! Corruption everywhere you turn!!
Karly Kingsley109This hurts my heart immensely
@Adventurer56 - Don’t Major in Minor Things!14The National Estimate is that well over 4,000,000 people have been denied or lost access to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) across the United States because of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law by Trump. #4MillionMoreBlueVotes in the Midterm Elections !!
Watchdog Progressive13Trump's MAGA Republicans have lost their sense of humanity.
IndivisibleLasVegas ❌👑6Over 70K Nevadans, including children and seniors. The “richest” country in the world literally starves its citizens.
really? in front of my FIFA Peace Prize?!4What's hard here is I get you mean well, Senator, but the reality is the majority of wh*te voters think this is good, and the fact that they do is the actual war you've gotta win.
Clara McK3Over 300,000 people in California lost SNAP so far. That’s bigger than vast majority of cities, more than 1/4 the population of Rhode Island.
Julie Garner2Seriously, fuck these guys! I have SNAP benefits and they've been an absolute life saver. It's like they want people to fail. I hate them all.
Marta Jewson2We are way up there proportionally.
Looking to speak with any Black folks in New Mexico, Arizona, Missouri, Maryland, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Washington, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, or Colorado (whew) who have had their Medicaid or SNAP benefits abruptly canceled! (I’m writing about how AI systems are denying benefits)
victoria8Additional context is I have also been impacted by this, I believe. I am pretty sure my IHSS case was flagged as high risk leading to an APS case being opened without my knowledge, and a social worker banging on my door 🥲
victoria2To add, these are the states that I know have implemented AI for Medicaid decisions, but if you are in a different state I’m happy to look into if that state is using AI as well :) but they may not.
victoria2Can be in the past or present 💕
Arizona is the canary in the coal mine, pushing more quickly to reduce its SNAP error rates, and offering a preview of what is likely to happen elsewhere. Here is a gift link to a piece in the Times about what is happening on the ground. It is heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Don Moynihan101Arizona responded to the threat of loss of federal SNAP funding by unilaterally increasing documentation requirements, going so far in one case as to push a homeless man to document his panhandling income.
Snarky Panda4meanwhile we spent $872 million on school vouchers in the 2024-25 school year, expected to exceed $1 billion this year.
still in Pittsburgh2thinking too of all the folks losing their jobs: "Processing the paperwork was especially hard since Arizona had just laid off a third of its caseworkers after losing a federal grant"
It's ALMOST like if people read @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social's Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means, they could have predicted precisely the adverse effect of layering on new administrative burdens to accessing life-saving food assistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Pam Herd136This was predictable. And it was by design. Republicans ensured that many states will effectively cut benefits with burdens--and the states will take the political fall for it. I wrote this a year ago. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...
Paul Waldman46The party that complains about the evils of "big government" spent years studying how to weaponize bureaucracy against poor people, and that's exactly what they're doing.
