House Farm Bill Reconciliation Summary Overview

May 29, 2025

By Peggy Kirk Hall

Note: The U.S. House of Representatives passed its budget reconciliation bill on May 22, 2025. Prior to the bill’s passage, the budget reconciliation process required the House Agriculture Committee to reduce spending by $230 billion over the 10-year budget period. The committee’s final proposed provisions for doing so, which represents the Farm Bill attention we’ve long awaited, were included in the budget reconciliation bill passed by the House. Thank you to our guest author and Farm Bill expert, Dr. Carl Zulauf, for the following summary of the House's proposed Farm Bill changes that now move over to the Senate for consideration.

1. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Secretary of Agriculture shall not increase cost of the thrifty food plan based on a reevaluation or update of its composition.
Cost of thrifty food plan indexed for CPI inflation.
Work requirements are increased.
Required state matching share goes from 0% currently to 5% in Fiscal Year (FY) 2028. This cuts Federal spending without cutting program benefits.
Matching share increases as state’s SNAP error rate increases. Matching share can be as high as 25%.

Source : osu.edu

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