Trump's Bill Cuts Food Assistance as Hunger and Food Prices Rise Across America
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Catherine Rampell
Summary
The article discusses how Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" legislation, passed nearly a year ago, cut over $1 trillion from federal safety-net programs—including significant reductions to food assistance like food stamps—to offset tax cuts. While Medicaid cuts received most attention, the food assistance cuts are substantial and come at a time when food prices are surging and hunger is increasing across America. The article argues these cuts are worsening the food affordability crisis rather than solving it.
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· 4 pulledAROUND THE COUNTRY, food prices are surging, and Americans are going hungry.
They're about to get hungrier, too, given that we've begun the steepest decline in food-stamp enrollment in decades.
Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' which passed almost exactly a year ago, siphoned more than $1 trillion out of federal safety-net programs to offset his regressive tax cuts.
The legislation's Medicaid cuts got the lion's share of public attention, but the cuts to food assistance were also enormous.
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