Alternet America - On July 4th, 2025, Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. By December, the results were in. At least 2.5 million low-income people lost help affording groceries after the bill added new requirements for SNAP and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from the federal government to states.
Around 6% of the 41 million Americans enrolled in SNAP when Trump signed the bill were no longer receiving benefits by the end of the year. Full-year 2025 data from the USDA shows an even bigger drop: 3.4 million people, roughly 8% of the program’s total.
Arizona was the largest outlier, with a whopping 47% of people in the program (about 424,000 people) losing benefits in 2025. Arizona’s unemployment rate rose over the same period, while the cost of groceries rose about 4%. ...
Many provisions of the law haven’t even gone into effect yet. The error rate penalties start in 2028. This is the early data.
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