The food assistance cut
Trump and Republicans made the biggest food-stamp cut ever — to help fund tax cuts.
- Who acted
- Trump signed it. Republicans in Congress passed it.
- Who gained
- The richest tenth gains about $13,600 a year from the same law’s tax provisions.
- What working people pay
- Nearly $300 billion comes out of SNAP, which serves 42 million people and averages about $6 per person a day.
- The connection
- Republicans used the food-assistance savings to cover part of their tax law.
Receipt: CBO estimates reported by CBPP, plus CBO’s distribution table
Trump's 2025 law cuts nearly $300 billion from SNAP — food stamps — the largest cut in the program's history. Forty-two million people use it, and it averages about $6 a person a day.
The cuts work through more paperwork and by pushing costs onto states, which can respond by tightening benefits. Either way, the result is the same: less food money at the bottom.
Trump signed it. Republicans passed it. The richest tenth gets about $13,600 a year from the same law's tax provisions.
Trump signed it. Republicans passed it. They cut nearly $300 billion from food assistance while the richest tenth gets $13,600 a year.
