New USDA data show 2.5 million fewer people participated in SNAP in December compared to July, when the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. This is only the beginning — even more people will lose SNAP as the full brunt of these cuts take effect.

H.R. 1 was enacted last July. By December, 2.5 million fewer people were participating in SNAP. Today, the Secretary of Agriculture attributed this to people being moved "into a better life of dignity, etc." The economic data suggest otherwise (or that "etc" meant "going hungry.")

I’m beginning to suspect that the Trump Administration wasn’t entirely on the level when they abruptly terminated the government’s 30-year annual food insecurity survey after enacting the deepest SNAP cuts ever

1 in 5 workers in America is an immigrant. Our diversity makes our jobs, our unions, and our country strong. Trying to divide us based on where we are born is a dirty trick that only helps the billionaire bosses.

77% of people detained don't have criminal records! #SOTU #ProtectImmigrantshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration #SOTU #SOTU2026

Pres. Trump is spreading lies and falsehoods about our immigrants as ICE terrorizes our communities. This is exactly why we're demanding justice and accountability from ICE and calling on Congress to deny them any new funding. Take action: ncjw.org/stopICE #SOTU2026

Trump just bragged about kicking millions of Americans off SNAP and food assistance programs… Ripping the rug from underneath families who are already struggling is not an accomplishment. It's a failure. And this President is failing the American people.

Given that USDA just happened to post SNAP caseload data that's typically released on Friday afternoons on a Tuesday morning ahead of the State of the Union, a reminder👇

The bill continues to leave victims of electronic benefit theft with no way to get their stolen SNAP benefits replaced. And it maintains H.R. 1’s cuts to federal funding for the transition to more secure SNAP payment methods, leaving states with a steep price tag to adopt them.

The House Agriculture Committee's farm bill proposal fails to address the unfolding hunger crisis as the Republican megabill (H.R. 1)’s unprecedented #SNAP cuts go into effect. But the bill also falls short in other important ways. Let’s dig into some examples. 🧵

Low-income families across the country are discovering in the checkout line that their SNAP benefits have been stolen & they can't pay for their groceries. It's devastating. Yet USDA keeps pushing back the timeline for regulations to make EBT cards more secure to prevent this.

Now USDA Secretary Rollins is saying #foodinsecure families should be able to easily eat 2 healthy meals a day. With every day, she becomes more out of touch with reality.

Instead of helping families who are struggling to afford groceries, the first year of this Administration included: - enacting the deepest cuts to SNAP in history - suspending SNAP benefits during the government shutdown - terminating our nation's most reliable measure of food insecurity

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Thank you @houseagdems.bsky.social for this powerful conversation about SNAP. Special shout-out to @tokuda.house.gov for raising the confounding question of HOW can food insecure service members be asked to defend our country? #militaryhunger #protectSNAP www.youtube.com/live/1bOYqIQ...

300 low-income families in Kansas City just had the SNAP benefits they need to afford groceries stolen via card skimming. USDA still hasn't issued the regulations Congress required to make EBT cards more secure. And Congress ended replacement benefits, so those families won't get that money back.

Until 2025, the very idea of our federal government weaponizing food assistance to punish political enemies was completely unthinkable and something out of a dystopian novel. Now, we’ve seen the Trump administration take that step multiple times over the course of several months.

The reality: States don't have any time to reduce errors. How much they’ll be required to pay for SNAP benefits is being determined right now. And rushed implementation of other SNAP cuts & the government shutdown are making errors more likely. subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

I don't think the public has fully grasped that the Republican megabill means that SNAP could end altogether in some states - or the extent to which the Administration is setting states up to fail, spiking the costs they'll face & making deep cuts to food assistance more likely.

This is no cause for celebration. Let us never lose sight of the fact that the Trump admin weaponized SNAP and played games with the lives of 42 million Americans without a moment’s hesitation. America’s hunger crisis didn’t begin with this shutdown, and it won’t end with the passage of this bill.

"Instead of honoring our legal and moral commitments, the administration is sowing fear and uncertainty and undermining the credibility of its own institutions,” AILA Executive Director Ben Johnson responds to Trump Administration refugee re-screenings. https://bit.ly/4oduBIF

After enacting the deepest #SNAP cuts in history & needlessly disrupting benefits during the shutdown, the Trump Administration is quietly advancing draft regulations to take SNAP away from millions more people – primarily working families with kids, seniors & disabled people.

“One way to think about the One Big Beautiful Bill is that it could end SNAP in some states, and it certainly ends SNAP as a national entitlement that is there for people in good economic times and bad.” @laurenhlb.bsky.social spoke to @Slate.com’s @shirinali.bsky.social about the OBBBA’s SNAP cuts:

Aside from the fact that SNAP participants already have to periodically recertify for benefits — usually every 6 or 12 months — SNAP rules also prohibit states from arbitrarily shortening a household's certification period to force them to reapply early.

The U.S. government shutdown raised questions about how such a rich country could have so many people on nutrition assistance. Here's what to know about SNAP, America's main food aid program.

Withholding SNAP benefits is unlawful and immoral, and with the stories starting to come about what families are going through for no reason, heartbreaking www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

It’s validating and truly powerful to see the order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund and issue SNAP benefits by tomorrow. Now, we must keep the pressure up to make sure the Trump administration drops this unconscionable appeal and immediately releases SNAP contingency funds.

This scramble is the result of the Administration’s failure to follow the law, do basic planning & use all available options. Millions of children, seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, parents, and workers in communities across the country are paying the price.

The Administration should provide full funding and tell states to disburse full benefits. Barring a change of Admin plans or a new court order today, however, states need to take on this challenge and act swiftly to get families partial benefits quickly.

Providing full benefits would ensure that low-income families receive the full amount they need to afford groceries. Because it’s far more straightforward for states to issue full benefits, it would also mean that these families would get their benefits faster.

They could have and should have done this weeks ago. Speedy execution is essential given that every minute of further delay means millions of families are not getting the help they need to afford enough to eat.

The Trump administration will send partial payments this month to the roughly 42 million Americans who receive food stamps as the federal shutdown approaches its sixth week. The roughly one in eight families that receive SNAP may still be at risk of imminent hunger and financial hardship.

After two straightforward and consistent federal court orders, the next steps for the Trump administration are abundantly clear. Not partial payments. Not late payments. Not in a day, or a week, or a month. Fully funded, immediately. Read our full statement: mazon.org/news/mazon_s...

JUST IN: Courts ordered SNAP payments to restart, and the Trump administration said Monday the food benefits would be half the normal payment. About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person on SNAP.

I will venmo any reporter $400 to ask trump "what does SNAP stand for"

Mike Johnson lies shamelessly: "The president is desperate for SNAP benefits to flow to the American citizens who desperately rely on it ... the SNAP situation has legal impediments."

www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin... The best way to follow whether the money is going out is with @hamiltonproject.org's federal outlay tracker, as it has a SNAP line item.

Hello. What is happening with SNAP is impoundment irrespective of the shutdown. The Administration has both the funds and the authority to provide 100% of SNAP benefits. According to the order from the RI case, they must either pay full benefits tomorrow or partial on Tuesday. 1/2

Today, for the first time ever, the government is breaking that promise and the law. Go to a grocery store and talk to the participants who want to buy food for their families with a card where benefits haven’t been reloaded. That is the story.

www.linkedin.com/posts/davegu... @allafarce.bsky.social via LinkedIn re: Propel’s internals. This is illegal.

It should not take a court order for a president to care for his people.

This week was a lot: Fear & rage that the Trump Admin would rather play politics than release SNAP funds. Gratitude & pride for amazing colleagues, partners, & advocates who came together for the #SNAPDayOfAction. Relief that lawyers & judges stepped in to demand that USDA release funds for SNAP.

This is the worst thing I have ever read about SNAP. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

My latest on the striking illegality of the Administration's freeze of SNAP benefits to 42 million vulnerable people. Their defense was a collection of bad policy arguments: they can't dispute the law's mandate, which they recognized as recently as last week. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

When we built the federal outlays tracker, I never thought I'd be using it to monitor a SNAP cutoff. But here we are. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...

This is contemptible and outrageous and unprecedented. Mostly children, the elderly, and those with disabilities. Shameful. Hungry at Thanksgiving.

My latest on the Administration's wildly unlawful shutdown of SNAP. To buy their argument, you must ignore the interpretation they took Sept. 30 and repeatedly in the first Trump Administration. Shamelesly and gratuitously cruel. Balkinization share.google/yaVtx89DJsIR...