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Prevents use of budget reconciliation to reduce Medicaid enrollment/benefits or SNAP eligibility/benefits through Jan 20, 2029.
Official title: To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for a point of order against reconciliation measures that cut benefits for Medicaid or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 9, 2025 by Brendan Francis Boyle · Last progress April 9, 2025
This bill protects Medicaid and SNAP recipients from cuts through Jan 20, 2029 and strengthens procedural barriers to reductions—but does so by limiting Congress's ability to use reconciliation to lower entitlement spending or to enact certain reforms, reducing fiscal and policy flexibility.
Medicaid beneficiaries keep their existing enrollment and benefit levels through Jan 20, 2029, preventing near-term cuts that would otherwise be possible through budget reconciliation.
Households receiving SNAP are protected from eligibility or benefit reductions enacted via reconciliation until Jan 20, 2029, preserving food assistance stability for low-income families in the near term.
Creates a point of order enforceable in both chambers that makes it procedurally easier to block budget bills that would cut Medicaid or SNAP, strengthening legislative protections for those programs.
Limits Congress's ability to use the reconciliation process to reduce entitlement spending through Jan 20, 2029, which could impede deficit-reduction options and raise long-term fiscal pressure on taxpayers.
Preserves existing program costs for taxpayers by preventing benefit or eligibility reductions enacted via reconciliation, reducing legislative flexibility to respond to future budgetary needs or fiscal shocks.
May constrain lawmakers who want to reform program eligibility or benefits—even reforms intended to improve efficiency or better target resources—by making such changes harder to enact through budget processes.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits Congress from using the budget reconciliation process to end or reduce Medicaid enrollment or benefits, or to cut eligibility or benefits for SNAP households, through January 20, 2029. It creates a procedural point of order in the House and Senate that blocks consideration of any reconciliation bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would make such reductions, and makes violations subject to an enforceable point of order.