1.5 million
Children who have lost SNAP food benefits since the law passed in July 2025.
As of August 2026
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Food
4.5 million
Total people off SNAP since July 2025, a drop of 11 percent.
As of August 2026
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States where SNAP enrollment has fallen. Alaska is the only exception.
As of August 2026
Read the full story$100 a month
Benefit cut for about 600,000 households, which include more than 500,000 children, from a single paperwork change.
1.2 million
U.S. veterans living in a household that receives SNAP.
Health care
4.8 million
Fewer people on Medicaid in April 2026 than a year earlier.
As of August 2026
2.2 million
People who dropped ACA marketplace coverage in the two months after premium tax credits expired.
As of August 2026
15 million
Projected to lose health coverage and become uninsured by 2034.
1 in 4
Share of Arkansas Medicaid enrollees who lost coverage in seven months under a similar work requirement. Many of them should have been exempt.
Who got the tax cuts
1.2M vs. 127M
The 1.2 million households making over $1 million a year receive more in total tax cuts than the 127 million households making under $100,000.
$1.4 trillion
Total tax cuts going to households making over $500,000. That is more than the law's cuts to health care and food assistance combined.
$790 vs. $32,200
What a married couple making $50,000 gets from the rate cuts, and what a married couple making $1 million gets.
Fewer than 1 in 1,000
Estates large enough to owe any estate tax. The law raised the amount heirs can inherit tax free to $30 million.
$13,600 up, $1,200 down
Average annual income change for households in the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
The trades they made
Taken
Health insurance for four people
Bought
One millionaire's tax cut
The average millionaire's tax cut is about $80,000. The health coverage cuts work out to about $20,000 per person losing insurance. One millionaire's tax cut costs the same as four people's coverage.
Taken
Coverage for 4.7 million people
Bought
Tax cuts for millionaires
People losing health insurance whose coverage could have been protected if Congress had skipped the millionaire tax cuts and spent the same amount.
Taken
75% of the entire SNAP cut
Bought
A bigger SALT deduction cap
Cost of raising the state and local tax deduction cap. Leaving it where it was would have covered 75 percent of the SNAP cut.
Taken
75% of the Medicaid cut
Bought
Reversing corporate tax increases
Cost of reversing the corporate tax increases while keeping the corporate rate cut in place.
The fine print
97 percent
Share of low-paid workers who get nothing from the no-tax-on-tips provision. Fewer than 5 percent of them receive tips at all.
3 percent
Share of the law's total tax cuts made up by the tips, overtime, and car loan provisions that were used to sell it.
$152B vs. $1T
Cost of the tips, overtime, and auto loan breaks, next to the cost of the tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
17 million
Children who get nothing at all from the Child Tax Credit increase because their families earn too little to qualify.
$0 vs. $400
What a single parent of two earning $16,000 as a home health aide gets from the Child Tax Credit change, and what a married couple with two kids earning $400,000 gets.
How this works
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