Last night, we looked at the House Republican plan for Medicaid in the Trump legislative agenda.

Tonight, we focus on another program facing sweeping reform and cuts in that budget bill.

That's SNAP, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program once known as food stamps.

The anti-hunger program reaches more than 41 million low-income Americans who receive an average of about $187 in food benefits

each month. The Congressional Budget Office projects proposed changes would save billions of dollars,

but millions of people would no longer be eligible for the program. Our Lisa Desjardin is here.

So, Lisa, what cuts to House Republicans want to make to this program?

These would be the most sweeping reductions in this program since the Food Stamp Act was passed in 1964.

House Republicans, one, would make states pay more for this. And number two, implement more requirements.

So eventually fewer people would benefit. First of all, those requirements are work requirements,

and they would apply to more people. They would now force states to pay a share of this program,

and they would limit the beneficiaries to U.S. citizens only. All in all, that would save just under $300 billion, according to the Congressional Budget office. That is money that House Republicans

would use to pay for tax cuts in this bill. And what impact might the work requirement have?

It's significant. Now, the focus here is on the most stringent work requirement under SNAP,

and that is for able-bodied people right now who don't have dependents. It's 80 hours a month.

That can be work or volunteering.

So let's look at how they're expanding it because the age is what has been expanding in this

requirement. In 2022, this requirement was for people up to age 49. But then it changed so that

currently it is required of people up to age 54, House Republicans would

expand it again by more so that everyone up to age 64 under this program would be required

to meet those 80 hours a month. It also would change for people with children. Right now,

if you have a child, you are not required to meet this 80 hours of work, but the House plan would require

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