{"id":48432,"date":"2026-05-28T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48432"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:26:54","slug":"over-700000-poor-kids-across-12-states-have-lost-food-aid-under-trump-gop-budget-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/over-700000-poor-kids-across-12-states-have-lost-food-aid-under-trump-gop-budget-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 700,000 Poor Kids Across 12 States Have Lost Food Aid Under Trump-GOP Budget Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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People receive groceries from a food bank on October 30, 2025 in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new analysis warns that large-scale loss of food assistance is \u201cjeopardizing the short- and long-term health, education, and economic benefits of nutrition programs for our children and society.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jake Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 27, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget<\/a> package that US President Donald Trump<\/a> and congressional Republicans<\/a> rammed through last summer has already spurred large-scale loss of nutrition assistance among low-income children<\/a>, with an analysis released Wednesday estimating that more than 700,000 kids across a dozen states have lost federal food aid since the GOP<\/a> law took effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a liberal think tank, found<\/a> that the \u201csharp participation declines\u201d among children likely stem from provisions of the Republican law that\u2014for the first time in the program\u2019s history\u2014shift large Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP<\/a>) benefit costs onto states. The law also expands punitive SNAP work requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Number of People Who Don\u2019t Have Enough to Eat\u2019 Surging Due to Trump-GOP Aid Cuts<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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As Trump Slashes Food Aid, Sanders and Omar Lead Bill to \u2018End Child Hunger in the United States\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The new analysis notes that children account for \u201cnearly half of the 1.6-million-person decline\u201d in SNAP enrollment since last July among people of all ages in the 12 states with data available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new law\u2019s cost shift has led states to take steps that are making it harder for eligible people to receive SNAP, including families with children,\u201d CBPP explained. \u201cLosing SNAP also makes it harder for low-income children to qualify for other food assistance, such as WIC and free school meals\u2014jeopardizing the short- and long-term health, education, and economic benefits of nutrition programs for our children and society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Republican lawmakers repeatedly denied that their legislation would strip food aid from needy children, with House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-La.) saying the package was laser-focused on \u201cfraud, waste, and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not cutting SNAP,\u201d Johnson falsely claimed<\/a> in May 2025, just over a month before Trump signed the Republican legislation into law. The package will cut $186 billion from SNAP over the next decade and strip food aid from millions of low-income people, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie Bergh, a senior policy analyst at CBPP, emphasized<\/a> that the SNAP cuts triggered by the Republican law have not \u201cfully taken effect,\u201d meaning recent benefit losses among families across the country are just the start unless Congress moves quickly to avert disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCongress must act before even more eligible low-income families\u2014including families with children\u2014lose the food assistance they need to afford groceries, starting by delaying this SNAP cost shift for all states,\u201d Bergh wrote on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump-GOP cuts to SNAP, combined with rising grocery costs stemming in large part from the president\u2019s tariffs<\/a> and war of choice against Iran, have resulted in surging food bank demand across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been going to food banks every week,\u201d a single mom in Arizona whose SNAP benefits were recently cut off told<\/a> NBC News. \u201cWe\u2019re eating less, we\u2019re eating more frozen stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far from reversing course on their assault on federal nutrition assistance, Republicans and the\u00a0Trump administration<\/a>\u00a0are doubling down,\u00a0pursuing massive cuts<\/a>\u00a0to fruit and vegetable benefits for low-income mothers. CBPP has\u00a0projected<\/a>\u00a0that roughly 5.4 million people would lose fruit and vegetable aid if Republicans\u2019 newly proposed cuts become law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People receive groceries from a food bank on October 30, 2025 in Miami, Florida. \u00a0(Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) A new analysis warns that large-scale loss of food assistance is \u201cjeopardizing the short- and long-term health, education, and economic benefits of nutrition programs for our children and society.\u201d Jake Johnson… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48433,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48432\/revisions\/48433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}