Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee are trying to use Tuesday’s farm bill markup to roll back controversial changes to the food stamp program enacted in the 2025 reconciliation law that funneled billions of dollars out of the program.
House Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee ranking member Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., submitted two amendments to the bill that would repeal the cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program made in reconciliation and increase the federal administrative personnel cost-share to 100 percent.
Last year’s reconciliation law made sweeping changes to SNAP, a program that serves about 42 million people, over the opposition of Democrats. The law reduced federal nutrition spending by $186.5 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
