The U.S. Department of Agriculture told grocery stores they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding lapse during ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Friday explained why the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees food assistance programs, doesn’t have the authority or funding to keep the ...

State lawmakers and governors will have decisions to make in 2026 about the budgets for their biggest social safety net ...

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits are administered to millions of low- and no-income Americans every month to help them buy essential groceries. As 2025 approaches, there will ...

In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins found that 500,000 people on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit were ...

A plan announced Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide partial food stamp benefits for November during the ongoing government shutdown could offer a measure of relief to millions of ...

SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, provides cash cards known as Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) to approximately 12% of Americans for a limited time to help purchase basic food items. Households ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday the Trump administration will require all participants in the nation’s largest food assistance program to reapply for benefits in an effort to prevent ...

Food stamp recipients are now receiving their November benefits, but a growing swath of enrollees may soon lose their vital food assistance completely. At the same time as the government shutdown ...

The Trump administration has pledged to slash government spending while promising to “make America healthy again.” Congress could take a firm stride in this direction by enacting the recently ...