ICYMI: Nearly 200,000 Arizona Children Stripped of Food Assistance After Ciscomani Voted To Cut SNAP

TUCSON — Nearly 200,000 Arizona children have been stripped of food assistance after Congressman Juan Ciscomani voted for the Republican Tax Law that made drastic cuts to SNAP.

According to NBC News: 

“Instead, the Trump administration has unleashed a crisis, removing a critical lifeline for many struggling parents and alarming their children, who are asking for food their parents can’t afford, according to 19 parents who said their nutrition benefits were halted or delayed. Food bank leaders, anti-hunger advocates and state health and human services officials echoed the parents’ alarm.

For households on SNAP, unexpectedly losing benefits — even temporarily — can be catastrophic. Families say they are prioritizing groceries over other essentials, causing a ripple effect: a utility bill that can’t be paid, resulting in gas being shut off in a household with two young children. A car with a broken engine that’s too expensive to fix, leaving a family without transportation.

Ballooning credit card debt to pay for what’s often hard to find at food pantries — meat, fish, fresh produce.

The food stamp reductions arrived with President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a sweeping change to the nation’s tax code passed last summer that the White House called “the most pro-family legislation ever crafted.” While the law reduced taxes for many Americans, it overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy through tax breaks and harmed lower-income people through cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.”

“Congressman Juan Ciscomani said he’d look out for Arizonans, but every day we hear that his vote for the Republican Tax Law only makes things worse and worse for Arizonans who can’t afford food or health care,” said Andrea Moreno, Executive Director of Honest Arizona. “Congressman Ciscomani needs to stop putting billionaires’ tax breaks ahead of the very real life-and-death needs of his own constituents.” 

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