Proposed SNAP changes could impact 11 million Americans, report finds

[BumRushDaShow]

Last edited Sun May 11, 2025, 04:36 AM - Edit history (2)

Source: Scripps News

Posted 3:37 PM, May 10, 2025


A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that a proposed change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would risk the benefits of 11 million Americans receiving assistance. The report examined a recent bill proposed by Republican Reps. Dusty Johnson, Randy Feenstra, and Warren Davidson. One notable aspect of the legislation is that it would increase the age for complying with SNAP's work requirements from 55 to 65.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, this proposed change would eliminate benefits for 1.4 million American adults. Another 300,000 people living in households with adults aged 55-64 would be at risk of losing benefits. The proposal would also modify SNAP's work requirement exemptions for parents. Currently, adults with a dependent child under age 18 are exempt from SNAP's work requirements. The bill would change the age limit from 18 to 7.

This proposed change would eliminate benefits for 3.1 million American adults ages 18 to 64 if signed into law. An additional 4.5 million Americans would be at risk of losing benefits because of the proposed change, 4 million of whom are children. If enacted, 500,000 seniors age 65 and older could lose benefits. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities stated that the changes could affect roughly one in four SNAP participants.

"With the risk of a recession rising and the Trump administration's tariff policies likely to increase the cost of groceries and other essentials, SNAP's role in supporting people who are temporarily out of work or don't earn enough to afford basic needs is especially critical," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities wrote. "Taking food away from more people who don't meet a harsh, red tape-laden work requirement or are unable to prove they qualify for an exemption would worsen food insecurity and hardship while undermining SNAP's vital role as an economic stimulus."

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/congress/proposed-snap-changes-could-impact-11-million-americans-report-finds

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Link to Center on Budget and Policy Priorities REPORT - Worsening SNAP’s Harsh Work Requirement Would Take Food Assistance Away From Millions of Low-Income People

Link to DRAFT LEGISLATION (PDF) - https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/dustyjohnson.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/America%20Works%20Act%20of%202025.pdf

[Skittles]

2. huh?

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Are you okay? ❤️

[niyad]

13. Did you actually read that before you hit "send"?

[orangecrush]

16. Welcome to DU

C ya

[Scrivener7]

31. Is that English?

[Cha]

3. Mump Wants to Starve Americans with

High Tariffs & taking away their Snap Benefits because Greedy Putin Puppets are under orders.

Make room for Russians and South Africans.

TY BRDS.. I don't understand this part..

This proposed change would eliminate benefits for 3.1 million American adults ages 18 to 64 if signed into law. An additional 4.5 million Americans would be at risk of losing benefits because of the proposed change, 4 million of whom are children. If enacted, 500,000 seniors age 65 and older could lose benefits.

Why would thoses Seniors lose their Benefits?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Hey Cha!

I just linked to their report and the draft legislation and they have this -

Under one proposal from House Agriculture Committee member Dusty Johnson, we estimate about 6 million people would be at risk of losing their food assistance. In total, nearly 11 million people — about 1 in 4 SNAP participants, including more than 4 million children and more than half a million adults aged 65 or older and adults with disabilities — live in households that would be at risk of losing at least some of their food assistance if Rep. Johnson’s proposal were enacted.[2]

I think it may have to do with the change in eligible children including those under the care of someone 65+. I.e., there are probably quite a few who are taking care of their grandchildren/great-grandchildren and the proposal DROPS THE AGE of those children who are eligible - from up to age 18 being changed, per the proposal, to now only up to age 7.

From the draft legislation, the "exception" -

‘‘(C) is a parent or other member of a
household with responsibility for a dependent
child under 7 years of age;

where previously, the max age was 18.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Republican math. Good grief! There's a way to fudge those numbers...

So they're only 99.9% as awful, by God!

I despise these women, children, old people hating and different people obsessed psychopaths.

[Cha]

7. Mahalo BRDS.. It's a Horror Show.

What possible rational could magats give for dropping the age from 18 to 7? !

Those poor people who are depending on SNAP to help them feed their families!

It all sounds like a crap load of Hogwash to fatten their own pockets.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. They are pushing to repeal the Child Labor laws

and want to put children "back in the factories and fields".

[Cha]

10. Ohh... I forgot about that

Dracoian Shit. No School just get to Work.

Mahalo

[patphil]

18. So once that child reaches 8 years of age they're capable of being on their own?

Even the new child labor laws some states are enacting don't go that low. Maybe there's an exception for farm labor that'll lets kids work in the fields at age 8. We know there will be a lot of openings there. Plus, they can always eat on the job.
These GD Republicans are absolutely heartless.

[peacebuzzard]

21. that sentence stumped me as well.

The whole thing is a shame.

[perdita9]

8. I am proud to pay taxes which help my fellow citizens

Maybe that's the message we need to start sending. Pride in paying taxes rather than whining about them.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. The "99%" ARE paying taxes

it's the "1%" who are not only NOT paying taxes proportional to their income, but who are sometimes actually getting refunds thanks to all the loopholes and deductions that they have been permitted to use. You also have whole tiers in that segment who are "funds managers" whose "income" is not as a traditional "salary" (that is taxable) but is some percentage of the funds they manage, meaning it is only subject to the "Capital Gains" tax rate (which has been dropped over the years).

Back during the 2012 election, Warren Buffett famously noted that his secretary was paying almost twice the marginal rate that he was (17%).

Before Raygun, the top marginal tax rate for that group was near 70%. Now it's down to 37%.



(above from here - https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2021/04/26/taxing-the-rich-the-evolution-of-americas-marginal-income-tax-rate-infographic/)

[DENVERPOPS]

25. The period of the greatest

accomplishments was coincidentally the period before Reagan was corruptly installed by HW's Cabal. And quality of life in America started dropping dramatically from 1980 onwards.

And presently, we have a whole ton of umpteen millionaires and Billionaires.

I read were Michael Bloomberg, worth 160 Billion, paid an average tax rate of 3.7%, but in tax years 2014-2018 he only paid 1.3%

I can only imagine it is the same for all the top 1%, or maybe even less, and maybe even getting refunds.

I can only imagine this is the same for the Corporations taxes......

[choie]

26. Totally agree!

I’d rather pay taxes for people to be able to get SNAP and Medicaid than pay them to pay the salary of a corrupt and criminal president and his criminal administration.

[xuplate]

12. What's 11 million people when enjoy being mean.

[DENVERPOPS]

23. When they enact this

I propose, when we take power back, we send each person that voted yes on the bill, down to the prison in El Salvador to see how they feel with little to eat.

[chouchou]

14. Not too worry. At the same time, Large Corporations will start paying more taxes, realizing...

...that they've been mighty slack for decades.. Signed: Madonna.

[Buddyzbuddy]

15. How ironic.

That those recipients of much needed benefits will soon be joined by those that have supplemented the supplies of those benefits.
It's been a good system that killed 2 birds with 1 stone. Until the Felon decided to fix another "problem". Goodbye mom and pop farmers. It may not seem like it, but we Americans, appreciate you. To bad you didn't recognize it before supporting people that don't.

I grew up in the system living on food stamps, that I was embarrassed about everytime my mom pulled out her book of tickets. I remember being taken to the clinic in East Los Angeles along with my little sister to an old building filled with the echoes of screaming babies receiving shots like clockwork. We lived right up the street. And, we got our shots and sugar cubes.
I remember waiting with my mom for what seemed to be all day at the Social Services office almost monthly.

How appropriate that I write this on Mother's Day because that's how some recipients referred to the 1st of the month. Unfortunately, I was too young to appreciate my mom for the embarrassment she must have felt or what she had to experience to keep food in our stomachs and I certainly didn't appreciate the Federal Government for what they provided. Let me say here publicly to my mom and President Johnson, the U.S. Gov't and the voters of the 1960's, thank you.

To the families of today, I'm sorry. I and so many like me, failed to protect you and provide for you when you needed us.
Rest easy knowing that billionaires like the Felon and Elon and the Kochs and the Waltons and ....... are protected and will never go hungry or homeless thanks to the Federal Gov't and the Republican voters who put them there. Oh yeah and soon children won't have to endure those painful shots or bitter sugar cubes because once again, the Federal Gov't will remove those protections.

Happy Mother's Day!

P.S. My mom stopped taking benefits as soon as possible, 10+yrs and has assets worth over 1.5 mil. and has a daughter that is a Doctor.

[erronis]

17. A beautiful tribute to your very fine mother!

[Buddyzbuddy]

19. Thank you.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. So they're saying

"Hey grandma and grandpa get your lazy asses out of that wheelchair and get to work!!!"

[peacebuzzard]

22. The pilfering and butchering of SNAP is a shame

And those who depend on this benefit will deteriorate even more without the basics. The most needy should not suffer this uncertainty;, and not having access to food? How much worse can it get?

[DENVERPOPS]

24. If it were just the

psychopath, sadist Trump it would be one thing, But it is the entire group of Republican Politicians that enable him to do this, that are fault. Even more so than Trump........

They all are displaying that they are Psychopaths and Sadists..........Along with a ton of CEO's and higher executives at the U.S. Corporations.....

I have long thought that being a CEO of a fortune 500 corporation, etc WAS IN ALL REALITY, a socially acceptable way for them to be a psychopathic Tyrant....

[peacebuzzard]

28. honestly I think you are correct about the CEO's its all about the tax breaks and contract favors

They might have to pretend for public info and publicity and internal corporate camaraderie that they are all for the work groups; but most have donated heavily to tsf's presidential run.
In the end it's their club and we are not in it.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. What % of GOP Congress have ever shopped for their household food in a supermarket?

[peacebuzzard]

29. very few if they are doing their jobs.

They need to be in DC throughout the week, I would hope.
I would assume they do quite a bit of commuting.
But even if they had to support a small apartment in DC, it would be groceries in smaller quantities; those are my thoughts.
Maybe they eat out? And just buy staples for their commuter place.
Unless they have a DC full-blown residence....I guess then it would depend on their family or spousal structure.
oh wait a minute you mean GOP I guess they just do fast food or restaurants.
and on edit: probably bars at night while they are laughing at their dismantling of infrastructure and newfound power

[jmbar2]

30. The poors are not the cause of debt/deficits - let's fight back with facts

Most SNAP recipients work.

Across nine states–Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington – these large corporations employed the following numbers of SNAP recipients in February 2020:

· Walmart – 14,541
· McDonald’s – 8,783
· Dollar Tree – 4,515
· Dollar General – 4,488
· Amazon – 4,218
· Burger King – 3,326
· FedEx – 2,622
· Wendy’s – 2,237
· Subway – 2,231
· Taco Bell – 2,114
· Uber – 2,032
· Target – 1,783
· Dunkin’ Donuts – 1,564
· Home Depot – 1,305
· Lowe’s – 1,154
· Family Dollar – 570
· CVS – 545
· Walgreens – 355


4.7 million SNAP recipients who worked full-time for 50 or more weeks in 2018 earned wages so low that they qualified for these federal benefits.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/taxpayers-subsidize-poverty-wages-at-large-corporations-gao-finds.pdf

Congress should claw back money spent on benefits from the companies themselves, not from the underpaid workers.