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No surprise here: President Donald J. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t beautiful in the slightest — and the changes it would make to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps or SNAP, are some of the ugliest proposals of them all.

The legislation, now under consideration in the U.S. Senate, would cut the number of people who are eligible for SNAP and pass on more of the program’s costs to the states. It will lead to more hungry children, more families making impossible choices, more seniors skipping meals.

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Part of the plan would tighten work requirements, and that proposal in particular seems like a system that’s being set up to make people fail.

And that’s not even the worst part.

Currently, most adults are exempt from SNAP work requirements if they have someone under 18 years of age in their household. The pending legislation “changes the generic, functional definition of ‘dependent child,’” according to section-by-section notes on the legislation —........

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