2.4 million Americans projected to lose SNAP benefits from expanded work requirements
Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” signed July 4, 2025 expanded SNAP work requirements to ages 18-64, affecting parents with children 14+, veterans, homeless individuals, and former foster youth. CBO projects 2.4-3 million Americans will lose benefits. Simultaneously threatens elimination of Head Start program serving 750,000-800,000 children.
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- Who will be affected by Trump administration's Medicaid, SNAP work requirements (2025-07-04)
- Head Start advocates brace for possibility of Trump eliminating funding (2025-04-18)
- What to Know About Head Start Amid Proposed Elimination (2025-07-04)
- 2.4 million people expected to lose food stamps after Trump agenda law broadened work requirements, CBO says (2025-07-05)
- Elon Musk hired a dozen Texas lobbyists this year. State law keeps the extent of their influence under wraps (2025-07-04)
- Want to know who Elon Musk's lobbyists wined and dined? It's a Texas-sized secret. (2025-07-03)
- How changes to Texas law will help Elon Musk's companies (2025-07-02)
- The One Big Beautiful Bill: Trump signs massive reconciliation package (2025-07-04)
- CBO Analysis: Budget bill adds $3.4 trillion to deficit over decade (2025-07-03)
- Budget reconciliation creates unprecedented executive slush funds (2025-07-05)
- House GOP tries to gut civil service through retirement contribution changes (2025-07-03)
- AFGE calls budget provisions "backdoor Schedule F implementation" (2025-07-02)
- Parliamentarian blocks civil service gutting provisions (2025-07-03)
- Congress eliminates federal funding for public broadcasting (2025-07-04)
- FCC Commissioner warns public broadcasting cuts threaten emergency alerts (2025-07-05)
- Republicans fulfill long-sought goal of defunding public media (2025-07-04)
- Budget bill massively expands private immigration detention (2025-07-05)
- Private prison stocks soar on $45 billion detention expansion (2025-07-05)
- How reconciliation bill privatizes immigration enforcement (2025-07-06)
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