House passes partisan farm bill, leaving millions at risk of hunger

Today the House passed The Farm, Food, and National Security Act (H.R. 7567) in a largely partisan vote, a major setback for improving the US food systems to benefit communities across the country. This farm bill fails to restore the nearly $187 billion funding for SNAP that was cut in H.R. 1. It undermines nutrition and healthy food access by flat-funding produce incentives, failing to expand purchasing power through the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) to meet families' needs. It does not restore funding to cut programs that connect farmers to schools and food banks. And it fails to unwind H.R. 1's damaging SNAP eligibility restrictions, which have already pushed over 3 million people off the program. Further, it protects the compromised 2025 Dietary Guidelines in statute and corrupts the process to update them in the future.

The most impacted are millions of children, working families, veterans, farmers, and seniors who rely on SNAP and the food safety net. Families struggling to put food on the table will bear the brunt of this partisan farm bill that fails to prioritize food and nutrition security.

We urge the Senate to take a different path and write a farm bill that restores and protects SNAP, expands access to nutritious foods, and supports nutrition science. Senators on both sides of the aisle should reject the House's approach, delivering a farm bill that meets the moment and puts families first.

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Tags

• SNAP
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Topics

• Government Accountability
• SNAP