{"id":302146,"date":"2026-07-21T20:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302146\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:29:36","slug":"new-york-lawmakers-push-to-delay-snap-cost-shift-as-federal-cuts-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302146\/","title":{"rendered":"New York lawmakers push to delay SNAP cost shift as federal cuts loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, N.Y. \u2014 New York lawmakers are calling for a two-year delay in shifting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) costs to states and counties as federal funding cuts are set to take effect soon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking in Troy Monday, Senator<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schumer.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/as-devastating-gop-snap-cuts-are-set-to-shift-cost-of-critical-food-assistance-to-states-and-counties-and-increase-hunger-schumer-launches-push-to-delay-cost-shifts-and-save-capital-region-county-budgets-from-footing-a-44-million-bill-every-year-to-make-up-for-major-food-cuts\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.schumer.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/as-devastating-gop-snap-cuts-are-set-to-shift-cost-of-critical-food-assistance-to-states-and-counties-and-increase-hunger-schumer-launches-push-to-delay-cost-shifts-and-save-capital-region-county-budgets-from-footing-a-44-million-bill-every-year-to-make-up-for-major-food-cuts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Chuck Schumer warned<\/a> that without action in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20181210\/CRPT-115hrpt1072.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20181210\/CRPT-115hrpt1072.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">farm bill<\/a>, counties could face millions in additional costs and may have to raise taxes or cut food assistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a New York State report released last July, more than 100,000 people rely on SNAP in Monroe County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/in-depth-look-at-how-many-people-rely-on-snap-across-the-rochester-region\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In-depth look at how many people rely on SNAP across the Rochester region (Oct. 29, 2025)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans defend the changes as a taxpayer-protection measure, saying states must do more to reduce payment errors and improve oversight.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/federal-funding-cuts\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">federal funding cuts<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/snap\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNAP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROY, N.Y. \u2014 New York lawmakers are calling for a two-year delay in shifting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13711,9,11,10,49,51,50,10604],"class_list":["post-302146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-federal-funding-cuts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-snap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}