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May 28, 2025

Congressional action looks to make cuts to SNAP

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or Food Stamps, has been in the news this week as congressional action looks to make cuts to the program. SNAP could lose around 300 billion dollars in funding over the next decade. The program helps low-income individuals and families afford their grocery bills, and it serves roughly 1 in 8 Americans.

Here in the agricultural midwest, there's concern not only for consumers, but food producers as well. President of the Iowa Farmer's Union Aaron Lehman reports, "We know that this impacts our people directly and it also impacts our farms that are growing the food that is used in the SNAP program". Taking money OUT of American grocery bills would pose a challenge for the region's farmers.

"Because farmers are expieriencing all sorts of market upsets due to trade tensions and tarriffs and also selling into monopolized marketplace where people buy what we sell.", says Lehman. 

The House of Representatives moved last week to pull funding from the benefit program. The legislation now comes before the senate.