Texas's Medicaid backlog exploded as state workers took on the new SNAP rules in Trump's budget bill. A pregnant Houston mom waited into her second trimester. San Antonio's mayor asked Gov. Greg Abbott to step in. His agency won't even say what's causing it.
A new tracker from States United and Grant Witness counts $177 billion in grants the Trump administration has cancelled, frozen or slowed since 2025 — $58.9 billion in health, $36.6 billion in food aid, $29.8 billion in disaster relief. Texas lost more than any state but California.
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
Angelica Garcia, a single mother in Tucson, was kept off SNAP for two months while Arizona rewrote the program to comply with Trump's budget bill. Ciscomani signed a letter urging House leaders to keep SNAP protected, listed it as a first-100-days accomplishment, then voted for the bill — and never mentioned food assistance in either statement he put out about it. More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost benefits since.
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Gregg Hull, the MAGA Republican running for governor of New Mexico, said Medicaid, SNAP food benefits and free child care "empower this type of failure," and claimed New Mexicans have been "convinced that this is a lifestyle" so they "don't have to do anything" for themselves.
At two campaign stops, the Republican nominee for New Mexico governor listed Medicaid, SNAP and free child care, then said 'we empower this type of failure' and that people have been 'convinced that this is a lifestyle.' Hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans rely on them.
A new Homeland Security rule lets officers treat a family's enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP or SNAP as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. The department's own analysis says federal and state spending could fall by $13.05 billion a year — from households that include U.S. citizens.
Demuth released her education plan on September 10. It would means-test Minnesota's universal school meals, opt the state into the $1,700 scholarship tax credit from Trump's budget bill, let districts opt out of paid family leave, and remove 'woke' standards she could not name.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
