| More Pennsylvanians are set to go hungry because of Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie, Rob Bresnahan, and Scott Perry.
New reports show that nearly 100,000 Pennsylvanians have lost food assistance as a direct result of cuts to SNAP the vulnerable Republicans made in their so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.
 REMINDER: Fitzpatrick, Mackenzie, Bresnahan, and Perry all cast decisive votes to pass the OBBB, “which passed the House by one vote.” Any single one of them could have stopped the bill from passing out of the House – and they didn’t.
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star: One year after ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’: 98K fewer Pennsylvanians on SNAP
- The past weekend’s 250th Independence Day celebration also marked another anniversary: the first year after President Donald Trump signed HR 1, otherwise known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
- […] roughly 98,000 Pennsylvanians no longer receive food benefits due to newly imposed requirements under the law, as estimated by the state Department of Human Services.
- Between July 2025 and May 2026, the latest month available, enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program fell from 1.96 million to 1.74 million, an 11% decrease. DHS attributed less than half of those losses to HR 1.
- Pennsylvania had one of the highest SNAP participation rates in the country in 2022 (the latest data available), meaning that nearly every eligible resident participated in the program. In the commonwealth, over half of those beneficiaries are families with children.
- Felix White, of Montgomery County, shared that Medicaid pays for his health expenses related to lung disease and diabetes while he’s caring for his 92-year-old mother.
- He credited Medicaid for covering a hospitalization associated with a blood blister, saying that without his policy, “I would have lost my foot.”
- “There’s no way I would be able to pay to see any doctors or pick up my medication,” White continued. “Thanks to Medicaid, I’ve controlled my type 1 diabetes, but I still live in fear of my (lung) disease and the complications it brings. Medicaid saves lives, and losing it would be a death sentence for me.”
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