Federal budget cuts risk pushing an additional 50,000 Michiganders into hunger. Feeding America West Michigan is urgently ...

Under a House version of the legislation, which was amended by the U.S. Senate before being signed into law, Michigan’s State Budget Office estimated this policy change would cost the state ...

According to the Budget Office, the bill would cut up to $800 million from Michigan’s total SNAP budget of $3.2 billion. Advocates say that a reduction of that size would be the largest in the ...

The proposed cuts to SNAP could also be compounded by the potentially historic cuts to Medicaid that are also in the reconciliation bill, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO ...

Data from last year shows nearly 1.5 million Michigan residents, or 15% of the population, received SNAP benefits. State Budget Office: GOP bill would strain budget, threaten residents’ benefits ...

According to the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, a Washington, D.C.-based left-leaning think tank, 1.35 million Michigan residents — or 13% of the state’s population — received SNAP ...

SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, serves 1.5 million people in Michigan. Lawmakers in Washington are considering legislation that calls for $300 billion in cuts to SNAP.

In Michigan, more than 2.6 million people rely on Medicaid, and 1.4 million rely on the supplemental nutrition assistance program or Snap for food assistance. And of those, more than 400,000 are ...

In the report, the State Budget Office said the proposed changes could force the state, which saw the federal government cover $3.2 billion in SNAP costs in Michigan last year, to pay up to $800 ...

The Congressional Budget Office projects that 9.5 billion meals would be eliminated from American households. The South Michigan Food Bank in Battle Creek is seeing similar projections.

How SNAP changes could impact food insecurity by: Tessa Kresch Posted: Jun 6, 2025 / 05:44 PM EDT Updated: Jun 6, 2025 / 05:44 PM EDT ...