Katie Bergh

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder · 3697 - Is Israel Imploding Or Expanding?; Trump's Crippling SNAP Cuts w/ Ilan Pappé, Katie Bergh · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

So the Republican reconciliation law that was enacted last summer included the deepest snap cuts in history.

And in the wake of those cuts, millions of low income people across the country are losing access to the food assistance that they need to afford groceries.

So in the nine months between when that law passed back in July 2025,

and April 2026, which is the most recent month that we have data for all states, the number of people receiving SNAP in this country fell by more than four and a half million people.

That's a roughly 11% drop in just nine months.

And that means that SNAP participation is falling and low income people are losing SNAP at the fastest rate in roughly three decades, going back to the last time that Congress enacted deep SNAP cuts in 1996.

And we know that this is impacting families with children as well.

While the data is a little bit more limited because most states don't publish more detailed demographic data on who is receiving SNAP and anything close to real time, we do now have data on the number of kids receiving SNAP each month from 19 states.

And extrapolating from that data, it is very likely that at least one and a half million fewer children nationwide are now receiving SNAP benefits in the wake of these cuts.

Sure.

So I think it's important to look at the there are a number of different ways that the reconciliation law made these unprecedented cuts to snap.

So first, it changed the eligibility rules so that many people no longer qualify for SNAP at all, most notably by dramatically expanding the number of people who are subject to the program's longstanding and very harsh work requirement, which limits many adults to only three months of benefits unless they can prove that they're working a minimum number of hours or prove that they qualify for an exemption.

There are some specific exemptions that are applicable to non-contiguous states like Alaska that is mitigating the impact of that particular cut right now.

The reconciliation law also reduced the benefit amount that many households who remain eligible will receive.

So even if people are still connected to the program, they may be getting less each month.

But most importantly, the reconciliation law also upended how SNAP is funded.

So it slashes federal funding for SNAP and shifts those costs onto state budgets.

And it's increasingly clear that that last point, these massive cost shifts, are driving very significant changes in how states administer SNAP that are causing many families who are in fact still eligible to be denied assistance altogether or to go for long stretches without SNAP benefits because of paperwork backlogs.

And that's what we think is causing

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