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The bill preserves existing SNAP protections and regulatory certainty for states while rescinding unobligated ICE funds and authorities, trading reduced enforcement funding/capacity and potential program disruptions for maintained benefits and slightly lower near-term discretionary spending.
Low-income households keep existing SNAP eligibility and benefit rules, avoiding the stricter tests or benefit reductions that would have taken effect under the repealed subtitle.
State governments and benefit administrators gain regulatory certainty because the bill restores prior law and eliminates the need to implement the repealed changes.
Taxpayers face a modest reduction in near-term federal discretionary spending authority because the bill rescinds unobligated ICE funds.
Law-enforcement and immigration enforcement capacity may be reduced because ICE loses the added authorities and funding that the repealed sections would have provided, potentially weakening operations.
Federal employees and ICE programs could face near-term cuts, contract cancellations, layoffs, or service disruptions as unobligated balances are rescinded.
Low-income households may continue to be subject to SNAP program mechanics that are less efficient or more costly because the bill preserves prior rules instead of implementing the earlier subtitle's reforms.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals two provisions from a recent omnibus law to remove added funding and authority for immigration enforcement and restores prior law for the Food and Nutrition Act, undoing changes that had been made to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). It also rescinds any unobligated balances tied to the repealed immigration-related provision as they existed the day before enactment, effectively cancelling those available but unspent funds.
Introduced March 18, 2026 by Shontel M. Brown · Last progress March 18, 2026