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HR 2489 · in committee · significant

Hunger-Free Future Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The bill prevents the USDA from updating the Thrifty Food Plan if the change would increase food insecurity.
  • This affects SNAP recipients and low-income households that depend on food assistance benefits.
  • The bill blocks required five-year updates to the food cost calculation used to set SNAP benefit amounts.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How would freezing the Thrifty Food Plan updates affect SNAP recipients if food costs rise faster than benefit amounts?

  2. 02

    What evidence exists that the current food cost calculations accurately reflect actual grocery prices for low-income households today?

  3. 03

    Which stakeholders—grocers, nutritionists, or budget officials—would be most impacted by preventing the scheduled five-year review of SNAP benefit calculations?

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Sponsor · D-OH-11

Shontel M. Brown

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Introduced 2025-04-18

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-04-18 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

  2. 2025-03-31 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

  3. 2025-03-31 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  4. 2025-03-31 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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