Summary of SNAP Changes in Senate Reconciliation Proposal

On June 11, 2025, the Senate Agriculture Committee released text for the Agriculture title of the Senate's version of the reconciliation package that passed the House in late May. The Senate Agriculture Committee text includes numerous differences from the House-passed bill (H.R. 1) and scales back some provisions, but it still makes hundreds of billions of dollars in damaging cuts to SNAP. 

For additional information on how the Senate's cost shifting proposal would affect states, see this resource: https://bestpractices.nokidhungry.org/resource/senate-reconciliation-snap-cost-shifting-proposal.

UPDATE: This resource has been updated to reflect the final reconciliation package text passed by the Senate on July 1, 2025. It also summarizes changes in the full text released by the Senate Budget Committee on June 28, 2025, which made some revisions to the Agriculture Title from the latest committee text. This also details the revised proposal released by the Senate Agriculture Committee on June 25 in response Senate Parliamentarian's determination that shifting SNAP benefit costs to states and further limiting eligibility for non-citizens as initially written violated the Byrd Rule for what can be included in reconciliation. The revised text from the Senate Agriculture Committee also raises the age of dependent children at which adult household members are subject to additional work reporting requirements and time limits from 10 to 14 and includes additional exemptions.

Note: This is a No Kid Hungry branded version of this resource. For a Share Our Strength branded version, see https://bestpractices.nokidhungry.org/resource/summary-changes-snap-proposed-senate-reconciliation.