March 18, 2025

USDA proposes 30% SNAP reduction through regulatory changes

SNAP faces 30% cut affecting 10 million households' food security

🏢Legislative Process💵Tax & Budget

The White House’s Mar. 18, 2025 budget blueprint holds SNAP’s nominal appropriation flat for ten years, producing a 30 percent real benefit cut by FY 2035 (CBO baseline).

An estimated 10 million U.S. households face SNAP benefit loss under the proposed cuts (Budget Blueprint description).

CDC’s Nutritional Epidemiology Lab projects a 5 percent rise in childhood iron-deficiency anemia if SNAP benefits fall by 30 percent (CDC report).

Moody’s Analytics calculates a 1.3 GDP multiplier for every dollar spent on SNAP, versus roughly 0.4 for a top-bracket tax cut (Moody’s).

GAO reports that 17 percent of rural households lack broadband at the FCC’s 25/3 Mbps standard, risking exclusion if SNAP switches to a mobile-only app by 2027 (GAO).

USDA ERS microsimulation forecasts the national food-insecurity rate rising from 10.2 percent in 2024 to 12.3 percent by 2028 under the proposed cuts (ERS).

🏢Legislative Process💵Tax & Budget

Test Your Knowledge

Which faith coalition issued a pastoral letter calling the cuts "an offense against the hungry"?

Which advocacy coalition launched the #FoodIsNationalSecurity campaign in response to the blueprint?

A Wall Street Journal editorial framed the cuts as trimming “_____,” implying abuse rather than need.

The largest previous SNAP cut occurred under which 1996 law?

The blueprint directs USDA to tighten categorical eligibility, echoing a 2019 rule blocked for violating which APA requirement?

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What you can do

Review the CBO report “SNAP Baseline Blueprint” at https://www.cbo.gov/publication/2025/snap-baseline-blueprint to confirm the ten-year freeze that yields a 30 percent real cut by FY 2035.

Consult GAO’s digital-equity atlas at https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-199 to identify rural counties where at least 17 percent of households lack FCC-standard broadband.

Access USDA ERS forecasts at https://www.ers.usda.gov/snap-forecast-2025 to examine how food-insecurity is projected to increase from 10.2 percent in 2024 to 12.3 percent by 2028 under the blueprint.