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

newsJul 3, 2026365,942

President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on July 4, 2025, and one provision cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding by about $18.7 billion annually. In Arizona the impact has been dramatic: children enrolled in SNAP fell from about 375,000 in June 2025 to 178,000 in May 2026, and overall Arizona SNAP enrollment dropped from roughly 910,000 to 452,000 over the same period. The law reduces the federal share of SNAP administrative costs from 50% to 25% (effective October 2026), and Arizona cut Department of Economic Security eligibility staff from 1,370 in July 2024 to 880, creating a backlog; in December 2025 over 18,000 applications were more than 30 days old. The bill also ties state liability for benefit costs to an “error rate”; Arizona’s error rate was 10.8% in 2025, putting the state at risk of covering up to 15% of benefits and as much as $300 million in fiscal 2028 if the rate persists. Established fraud claims were only 0.06% of benefits in 2023, and Harvard researcher Sara Naomi Bleich says the new rules target error rates rather than fraud and are unlikely to reduce fraud. To avoid future fiscal exposure, Arizona has tightened eligibility procedures, a shift that state officials say has made it virtually impossible for some eligible families to receive benefits.

Senate Democrats
@democrats.senate.gov

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.

348146d ago
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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