The House Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation proposal would save up to $300 billion over the next decade largely through cuts to the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, according to long-awaited Congressional Budget Office estimates viewed by POLITICO.
The savings from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would be well over the committee’s instructed target of $230 billion in spending cuts, giving House Republicans just enough wiggle room to include a $60 billion farm bill package in their megabill.
The committee will meet Tuesday night to mark up its portion of the bill. Here’s how much each proposal would save between 2025 and 2034, according to the CBO:
- Forcing states to pay for part of SNAP benefits based on their payment error rates saves $128 billion.
- Changing work requirements, waivers and other criteria for SNAP recipients who are able-bodied adults without dependents saves $92 billion.
- Limiting future updates to the Thrifty Food Plan, the basis for calculating SNAP, saves $37 billion.
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