Posted on 11/11/2026 6:41:21 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The Trump administration acted Tuesday to cut millions more Americans from the nation's largest food assistance program, even as enrollment continues to fall from other administration cuts.
A proposed rule issued by the Department of Agriculture would limit automatic eligibility for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, also known as food stamps, for households receiving cash aid under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program.
Currently, households receiving TANF benefits qualify for SNAP without needing to meet federal income thresholds. TANF eligibility varies by state but is generally 130% to 200% of the federal poverty level. SNAP eligibility is generally 130% of the federal poverty level.
Under the USDA's proposed change, almost 18% of SNAP recipients, or about 6.3 million people, would lose benefits, according to an agency analysis included in the proposed rule.
More than 5.5 million people already lost SNAP benefits since President Donald Trump enacted cuts to the program in his July 2025 tax law, dropping enrollment to about 36 million people, according to USDA data.
The enrollment decline is partly due to struggles by states to implement administrative changes to the program and also to absorb significant new costs from Trump's law.
The enrollment decline is partly due to struggles by states to implement administrative changes to the program and also to absorb significant new costs from Trump's law.
Because SNAP enrollment also confers eligibility for other food aid programs, the USDA estimates that 1.8 million children would also lose eligibility for free school lunch under its proposed rule.
Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., of Minnesota, ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, in a statement called the rule "heartless and cruel."
"The proposed rule would make it harder to meet basic needs and roll back efforts to streamline federal programs," she said.
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More heartless and cruel cuts to SNAP please - commenters
Great news! It’s good to see people becoming more self sufficient.
Was it illegal aliens being cut?
You would think that information would be relevant in a supposed NEWS article.
But its really a propaganda article.
So this might affect school kids free breakfast, free lunch Or free dinner.?? I see some health benefits.!
Now limit what they can buy to beans, rice, milk, veggies and tuna fish or chicken!!!
And they get really angry when someone doesnt give them free food.
And they stop looking for thier normal food as nature intended.
The ones I see on THEIR OWN BRAGGING VIDEOS show them gleefully showing them buying CARTS of food to my 2 s.all bags. And zi never get shrimp, crab lobster and rib eyes.
And they use the $ to buy nice cars and jewlery and clothes I could NEVER afford.
LET ME KEEP MY $
The ones I see on THEIR OWN BRAGGING VIDEOS show them gleefully showing them buying CARTS of food to my 2 s.all bags. And zi never get shrimp, crab lobster and rib eyes.
And they use the $ to buy nice cars and jewlery and clothes I could NEVER afford.
LET ME KEEP MY $
These are the kind of headlines that turned America over to the democrats, the president and the GOP need to defend all these actions, reducing food stamp fraud, cutting food stamp waste, clearing the rolls of people exploiting SNAP with fake documents and IDs, crime, crime, crime, waste, fraud, where is the administration fighting back?
Minnesomali Sammies should not be given one cents’ worth of U.S. food snaps. If they are hungry, they need to go home to Somalia and have their own government feed them.
Call it what it is, EBT. Anyone who came in this country as illegal or a refugee gets these benefits.
There are people that were on them years ago who have since gained the ability to buy their own food, yet they are still getting EBT food and EBT cash.
For a while it is an honor system until the govt honor/hah hah system catches it. Honor in America now is laughable.
You are supposed to tell them when your condition improves and you don’t need them anymore. 🙄💩
When people apply for these benefits, the tell you that your race and ethnicity is not used to approve or disapprove.
Then the next box you fill in is your race and ethnicity. 😏
“where is the [Republican] administration fighting back?”
You tell me! I’d like to see that, too. Feckless Quislings!
If not citizens cut 100% right now.
If been in country for years illegally cut them yesterday.
Get a job.
Good. That free school !inch program is a racket. My sister lives in A $400,000 neighborhood and last summer I saw comments on her neighborhood watch where all these mothers were posting back and forth about the times for the free lunch and just go pick them up and bring them home to eat. I was outraged.
The Democrats play this like the people being cut off are poor hungry people and not part of an organized crime operation.
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