Congress is proposing to expand the harsh time limits to SNAP, which limit many participants to 3 months of assistance over 3 years unless they are working. Yet the average unemployment spell lasts over 5 months. Harsher time limits would cut benefits and increase hardship for thousands more!

Californians are already struggling to afford everyday needs, and these proposals would only make it harder.

Families will have to contribute more of their budget to purchasing food, making it harder to afford other necessities like child care:

The Senate's budget plan maintains many harmful provisions to SNAP/CalFresh. Expanded time limits will make family budgets even tighter and put services like child care out of reach for thousands of Californians!!

‼️Congress is pushing an unprecedented cost shift of #SNAP onto states. If California can’t meet the burden of 25% of costs, it could opt out entirely - leaving thousands of low-income families without food aid. This is reckless and dangerous.

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📢 Reminder: Cutting federal funding for SNAP just means California foots the bill. And if they can’t? Kids go hungry. And California will have to make impossible decisions about the $3 BILLION the state will be forced to address if a cost-shift proposal passes. #HandsOffSNAP #SaveSNAP

How would the $230 billion proposed federal cuts to SNAP impact California families? This graphic shows the groceries a family in Bakersfield would lose out on if their benefits were cut by 20%.

CalFresh helps millions of families and children and should be protected!! #SNAP #HandsOffSNAP