- cross-posted to:
- politics
- antitrumpalliance
- cross-posted to:
- politics
- antitrumpalliance
Arizona recorded the largest drop in enrollment after the bill became law. The legislation tightened eligibility rules for food assistance and increased state screening requirements. State data through May shows that more than 450,000 Arizonans have come off Snap, cutting overall participation within the state in half.
According to the CBPP analysis, children make up a significant portion of those losing benefits, with more than 1 million children across the 19 states studied no longer receiving Snap assistance.
In Louisiana, nearly one in four children receiving Snap benefits lost assistance. Massachusetts and Texas each saw close to one-fifth of children enrolled in the program removed from Snap.
And further below, the cause for the suffering of children:
The report says the steep decline in participation is likely tied in large part to the 2025 Republican reconciliation law, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which shifted a substantial share of Snap benefit costs to states based on their payment error rates.
“Benefit” is one of the less inflammatory descriptions. Republicans typically demonize these programs by referring to them as ‘entitlements’.
The word “entitlement” is one that the cons have loved to weaponize - they make it sound like the people getting entitlements are entitled little brats (or welfare queens, as Ronnie Raygun put it), when it’s about the legal framework of those programs.
They love to twist language - see their use of the word “elite” as another great example. People with ungodly amounts of money don’t count as elite in their view, but someone that cracks open a book is an elite.