The Trump administration's budget adjustments are reshaping the financial landscape of essential social assistance programs. With cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, states are now facing the daunting task of ...

The Democratic National Committee is showing where President Trump's bill could hurt people in the state, but the White House ...

It won’t happen immediately, but advocates and state officials are predicting that changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the budget reconciliation bill signed last week will ...

President Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" shifts more Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program costs to states.

The SNAP changes break that tradition in two ways. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about 3 million people are likely to be dropped from the program and lose their benefits.

Work requirements will expand and exemptions from them will recede. How much states have to pay will be tied to the prevalence of mistakes, not fraud.

The federal government’s responsibility for the cost of benefits also allowed spending to automatically grow during economic downturns, when more people need assistance.

And because states will soon have to take on more of the costs of the program, which totaled over $100 billion in 2024, they may eventually further restrict who gets help due to their own ...