Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
This bill (Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 2025) amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to repeal the able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) work requirement that can disqualify adults from SNAP benefits. It makes conforming statutory changes and takes effect 180 days after enactment.
Progressives emphasize hunger relief and racial equity benefits
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly drafted substantive statutory change that precisely amends identified provisions of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and related statutes to repeal a specific SNAP work requirement.
This bill (Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 2025) amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to repeal the able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) work requirement that can disqualify adults from SNAP benefits.
It makes conforming statutory changes and takes effect 180 days after enactment.
Substantive rollback of a contested federal requirement with clear partisan alignment and nontrivial fiscal implications lowers passage odds.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly drafted substantive statutory change that precisely amends identified provisions of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and related statutes to repeal a specific SNAP work requirement. It specifies the operative statutory edits and an effective date, enabling direct legal effect.
Progressives emphasize hunger relief and racial equity benefits
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize hunger relief and racial equity benefits
Likely strongly supportive.
Views repeal as restoring access to food for vulnerable people and addressing racial disparities cited in findings.
Sees administrative relief and child welfare benefits as central gains.
Cautiously favorable but pragmatic.
Sees benefits to food security and reduced bureaucracy, but seeks evidence on fiscal costs and workforce effects.
Would want implementation monitoring and possible guardrails.
Likely opposed.
Views the repeal as removing work incentives and expanding entitlement spending.
Concerned about fiscal cost, fairness, and negative labor-market effects.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Substantive rollback of a contested federal requirement with clear partisan alignment and nontrivial fiscal implications lowers passage odds.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize hunger relief and racial equity benefits
Substantive rollback of a contested federal requirement with clear partisan alignment and nontrivial fiscal implications lowers passage odd…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly drafted substantive statutory change that precisely amends identified provisions of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and related statutes to repeal a s…
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