Items Tagged with 'Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program'

The Trump administration’s proposal to require retailers who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program carry more whole foods is facing pushback from convenience stores who say it could drive them out of the program.

State and county officials who administer the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are warning that changes to SNAP mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will saddle them with additional costs for payment errors that they have little opportunity to correct.

Base acreage for corn is expected to increase by 18%, or about 16.8 million acres, under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, according to new Congressional Budget Office estimates. Soybean acreage, meanwhile, is projected otherwise to grow by 11.6 million acres, or 22%.

The Trump administration's demands for state data to carry out its investigation of waste, fraud and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are meeting resistance both from Democratic-led states and from Democrats in Congress. State officials also are puzzled by estimates USDA has released. 

House and Senate Democrats strongly criticized the Trump administration and congressional Republicans for attacks on SNAP as they announced legislation to undo cuts to the program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The Supreme Court agreed to keep in place its stay of a lower court order requiring USDA to provide full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November. The stay is to last 48 hours, until Thursday

USDA is continuing to fight court orders requiring it to release full SNAP benefits for November, even as Congress works to reopen the government, perhaps within days.