FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1, 2025
Contact: Justin Henry / jhenry@rubenstein.com
NEW YORK — The U.S. Senate has voted to cut nearly $200 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as part of their budget reconciliation bill. Both chambers of Congress still need to agree on an identical budget bill before it goes to the President’s desk. The following is a statement from Rachel Sabella, Director of No Kid Hungry New York:
“As families across New York struggle to find their next meal, the U.S. Senate has just taken an unprecedented step toward cutting SNAP – one of the most powerful tools we have to fight hunger. While incremental improvements have been made to this bill, these cuts will still hurt families already working to put food on the table for their children, as well as veterans and seniors unable to meet strict new requirements to access aid. They will also devastate farmers and small businesses in every corner of the state who rely on customers using SNAP.
“The disastrous proposal just approved by the Senate will reduce benefits across the board, requiring families to jump through additional hurdles, adhere to onerous time limits, and cut through layers upon layers of unnecessary red tape. It goes even further to threaten the future of SNAP by upending its structure, making it harder for state agencies to invest in safeguards that ensure that benefits make it to the families that need them. The fact that this vote is coming now, as rising food costs are pushing half of New York families into debt, means that the Senate is continuing to put New Yorkers’ physical, emotional, and financial well-being in jeopardy.
“For nearly a century, SNAP has provided vital grocery benefits that have helped New York children and families, support local farms, and keep businesses afloat. Now isn’t the time to turn back the clock. As the bill heads back to the House, Congress needs to remove these dangerous cuts to SNAP from the budget bill before it reaches the President’s desk. Countless New York children rely on these benefits to access the healthy food they need to grow and thrive, and they deserve better.”
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About No Kid Hungry
No child should go hungry in America. But millions of kids in the United States live with hunger. No Kid Hungry is working to end childhood hunger by helping launch and improve programs that give all kids the healthy food they need to thrive. This is a problem we know how to solve. No Kid Hungry is a campaign of Share Our Strength, an organization committed to ending hunger and poverty.
