Snopes: House Speaker Mike Johnson signed bill cutting $186B from SNAP in July 2025

[Eugene]

Source: Snopes.com

House Speaker Mike Johnson signed bill cutting $186B from SNAP in July 2025

Users shared this true claim amid uncertainty regarding whether Americans would receive federal food benefits during the 2025 government shutdown.

By Jordan Liles
Published Oct. 30, 2025

Claim:

In July 2025, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson voted in favor of a bill with a projected $186 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides federal food benefits to roughly 42 million Americans.

Rating:

True

A claim that circulated online in late October 2025 said U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson had months earlier signed President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and that the bill purportedly slashed a projected $186 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program federal benefits.

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In another DU thread: Snopes - Did Mike Johnson say Republicans aren't 'in charge' of the government?

[Bayard]

1. Once a weasel, always a weasel

[Wednesdays]

3. ...

[oasis]

2. "Christians" like Mike should take a long hike.

……. off a short pier.

[soldierant]

4. In the the winter,

weasels change color and become a beuatiful white (some with black just at the tai tip - those are ermines). Mike Johnson is never beuatiful, so he cannot be a weasel. Some kind of reptile, maybe.

[Keepthesoulalive]

5. I've learned reptiles add value

They do what they have to do to survive and they maintain balance in the ecosystem. That rabid rat does nothing but bring disease and hardship to our nation.

[Trueblue Texan]

6. Please don't besmirch reptiles...

...they benefit the environment, unlike Grinder Mikey.

[GAtomboy]

7. I wouldn't compare him to any living thing

The most accurate description of Johnson is a steaming pile of excrement!