Overview

• More than 30 entertainers, including Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon and Zayn Malik, signed a Feeding America letter calling on Congress to reject cuts to SNAP and Medicaid.
• The House-passed Big Beautiful Bill would extend tax cuts and offset revenue by reducing food stamp and healthcare funding.
• The Congressional Budget Office projects nearly 4 million fewer people would receive SNAP benefits each month under the proposed changes.
• Signatories warn that eliminating 9.5 billion meals annually and tightening Medicaid work requirements would disproportionately harm children and seniors.
• The Senate parliamentarian has struck down a GOP proposal to shift SNAP costs to states, and the upper chamber is poised to reshape the bill before a vote expected by early July.