The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, One Year Later: Parsing the Evidence on the Law’s Consequences so Far

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is making kids go hungry

One of the key provisions of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” enacted on July 4, 2025, was a major cut to nutrition assistance for low-income Americans, known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The SNAP cuts amounted to about $18.7 billion annually — about as much as the federal government spent in one week of the Iran War. Although the deepest SNAP cuts have yet to take effect, the impact of these cuts has already been …

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far

Key takeaways The One Big Beautiful Bill Act—the 2025 congressional budget reconciliation bill—was enacted one year ago and featured deep cuts to social programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid in order to pay for big tax breaks that largely benefitted wealthy households and corporations.While some of the cuts have not been fully implemented yet, research already can shed light on how the law impac…