SNAP's time limit works like a stopwatch: an adult it covers gets three months of benefits, then must prove 80 hours a month at work, in training or volunteering, and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act starts that stopwatch for many more people, including Missourians in their late 50s and early 60s and parents of high schoolers, inside a $187 billion SNAP cut through 2034 that CBPP ranks first in the program's history. Ann Wagner of Missouri's 2nd District was one of the 215 who beat 214 on May 22, 2025, and on July 3 she was a yes again.
CBPP's June 2025 state estimate, which modeled both expansions as the Senate Agriculture Committee had drafted them, found the SNAP of 14,000 Missourians aged 55 to 64 and 20,000 with teenage children at risk in a typical month. Before any of that, Wagner's February 2025 vote decided a budget resolution demanding $230 billion from the Agriculture Committee, and the law that answered it passes a bigger share of SNAP's costs to Missouri.
Ann Wagner's Votes on SNAP
- Wagner's Vote Carried the House Bill by One; the Law She Voted For Cuts SNAP $187 Billion, With Work Rules CBO Links to 2.4 Million Fewer People Fed. May 22, 2025: H.R. 1 clears the House 215 to 214, a member voting present, Ann Wagner's yes among the 215 it could not spare. July 3, 2025: she is a yes on concurring in the Senate's version, which carries 218 to 214. "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found, ranking it the deepest SNAP reduction on record. Congressional Budget Office analysts expect the broader work rules, which now sweep in adults up to 64, parents of children 14 and up, veterans and homeless people, to "reduce participation in SNAP by roughly 2.4 million people in an average month."
- Wagner's Deciding Budget Vote Gave SNAP's Committee a $230 Billion Savings Target. Wagner's yes put H.Con.Res. 14 over the top, 217 to 215, on February 25, 2025; had she alone gone the other way, it would have deadlocked 216 to 216 and failed. Its instruction to the Agriculture Committee, home of SNAP law, was to "reduce the deficit by not less than $230,000,000,000". Wagner later voted for the rules for debating H.R. 1, in May and again that July. The final law she voted for on July 3 then shifted costs to states: Washington's portion of SNAP administration falls from half to 25 percent in fiscal 2027, and starting in fiscal 2028 a state whose payment error rate hits 6 percent or more must fund some of the benefits too. CBO projects states will respond by trimming or ending SNAP for about 300,000 people.
What the SNAP Changes Ann Wagner Voted For Mean for Missouri Families
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate: 14,000 older Missourians and 20,000 parents of teens at risk of losing SNAP to the time limit. Missouri's at-risk count, as a monthly average, from CBPP's June 2025 look at a Senate Agriculture Committee draft that carried the two expansions the law later made: 14,000 people aged 55 to 64 who have no children at home and no disability, plus 20,000 parents whose youngest is 14 or older. A 60-year-old let go from a warehouse, or a mother of a ninth-grader whose schedule changes weekly, would have three months to document 80 hours a month before the grocery money ends.
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate counted 40,000 Missourians in homes with an at-risk parent of a teen. The same CBPP table, made for the Senate committee's proposal, also counts the people under the same roof: 40,000 Missourians in households with an at-risk parent of a teen, and 18,000 with an at-risk adult aged 55 to 64. Cutting one person's share shrinks the household's food budget for everyone in it, kids too.
- Missouri veterans in SNAP homes, 21,000 in all, lose the time-limit exemption wherever the limit covers them. CBPP finds 21,000 Missouri veterans, 6% of 347,000, in households that use SNAP. The law took away the veterans' exemption from the three-month limit, so a veteran under 65 without a disability or other exemption must now show 80 hours a month of work or training to keep the benefit.
- Missouri now pays 75% of SNAP's running costs, and may owe a share of benefits from 2028. Starting with fiscal 2027, Missouri covers three of every four dollars spent administering SNAP, up from one of two, and a payment error rate at 6 percent or above in fiscal 2028 adds a bill for part of the benefits; every dollar the state diverts there is one it cannot spend on the caseworkers who process Missourians' applications.
Frequently Asked Questions About Ann Wagner on Food Assistance
What is Ann Wagner's record on food assistance under Trump?
Ann Wagner supplied a deciding yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's House version in May 2025 and voted yes on the Senate-amended law that July, cutting SNAP by $187 billion through 2034. In February 2025, her vote decided a budget resolution that set the committee writing SNAP law a savings target of at least $230 billion. Scoring the Senate Agriculture Committee's June 2025 version of the longer time limit the law later adopted, CBPP estimated that in a typical month 14,000 Missourians in their late 50s or early 60s, and 20,000 mothers and fathers of teenagers, were at risk of losing their food aid.
How does the SNAP time limit Ann Wagner voted for work for a Missouri parent of a 15-year-old?
Ann Wagner voted for a law that drops the exemption a Missouri parent used to have once the youngest child turns 14, so without another exemption that parent must log 80 hours a month of work, training or volunteering, or lose SNAP after three months. For a Senate Agriculture Committee proposal that made the same change, CBPP estimated in June 2025 that 20,000 Missouri parents were at risk, with 40,000 people in their households.
Will Missouri have to pay more for SNAP because of Ann Wagner's vote?
Yes. Ann Wagner voted for a law that lowers Washington's share of SNAP administration to 25 percent from fiscal 2027, so Missouri pays the other three-quarters, and from fiscal 2028 it bills states with error rates of 6 percent or higher for part of the benefits. CBO expects states facing those costs to reduce or end SNAP for about 300,000 people.
Last updated: 2026-10-27