The One Big Beautiful Bill Act shrinks SNAP by applying its three-month time limit to more adults and by making states pay a share of benefits and most of the cost of running the program, and Brad Knott of North Carolina's 13th District supplied a deciding vote for the House version on May 22, 2025 and voted for the final law on July 3; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities counts the cut at $187 billion, about a fifth of the program, through 2034.
The budget resolution that told the Agriculture Committee, which oversees SNAP, to come up with at least $230 billion also turned on his February 2025 vote. North Carolina's SNAP rolls have fallen by more than 110,000 people since September 2025, and the state handed the higher administrative bill to its counties.
Brad Knott's Votes on SNAP Cuts and Work Rules
- Knott Voted for the Largest SNAP Cut on Record, $187 Billion Through 2034. A one-vote House margin, 215-214 on May 22, 2025, carried the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's first version, and Brad Knott was in that majority. His second yes, on July 3, 2025, came as the Senate-rewritten bill passed 218-214 and headed to the president. "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found, the largest cut to SNAP in history. Adults until they turn 65, parents whose children are teenagers, veterans and homeless people now fall under the time limit, and CBO projects the rules will "reduce participation in SNAP by roughly 2.4 million people in an average month."
- Knott's Deciding Budget Vote Gave the Agriculture Committee a $230 Billion Savings Target, Ahead of the Law's Shift of SNAP Running Costs to the States, in February 2025. Knott's February 25, 2025 yes adopted H.Con.Res. 14, the budget resolution, 217-215; had he alone switched, it would have tied, and a tie fails. It instructed the House Agriculture Committee, which oversees SNAP, to "reduce the deficit by not less than $230,000,000,000". In May and July 2025 he also voted for the rules that let the House take up H.R. 1. The SNAP cuts arrived with the July 3, 2025 final law that Knott also voted for, among them a rule that beginning in fiscal year 2027 the federal government covers only 25 percent of the program's administrative costs, leaving states and, in North Carolina, counties to pay the rest.
What the SNAP Cuts Brad Knott Voted For Mean for North Carolina Families and Counties
- CBPP's estimate of the same SNAP time-limit expansions put about 90,000 North Carolina adults 55 to 64 and parents of teens at risk. In June 2025, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated, for the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal with these same expansions of SNAP's work rules, that about 47,000 North Carolinians ages 55 to 64 without children or a disability, and 43,000 adults whose youngest is 14 or older, were in danger of losing SNAP in an average month. Unless they log 80 hours a month of work or a work program, they can receive benefits for only three months in three years.
- North Carolina's SNAP rolls have dropped by more than 110,000, and food pantries are filling the gap. NC Health News reported in August 2026 that the federal SNAP cuts and work rules have pushed more families toward food pantries, with North Carolina's SNAP rolls down by more than 110,000 since September 2025; demand at A Simple Gesture, a Guilford County food nonprofit, was up 20 percent from a year earlier.
- North Carolina counties pick up an estimated $52 million in new SNAP costs in the first year. North Carolina was one of two states that passed the higher administrative share entirely to counties, Ballotpedia reported, and NC Health News put the new county bill at about $52 million for at least the first year. Scotland County's manager said the county must "juggle other things in the budget" and that "It can become a burden on our taxpayers."
- North Carolina could owe about $140 million toward SNAP benefits in fiscal 2028. From fiscal year 2028 the law makes states with higher payment error rates pay part of SNAP benefits, and based on North Carolina's fiscal 2025 error rate of 7.36 percent, CBPP's estimate of the state's fiscal 2028 bill is a possible $140 million, money that comes out of the state budget.
Frequently Asked Questions About Brad Knott on Food Assistance
What is Brad Knott's record on food assistance under Trump?
In May 2025 Brad Knott provided a vote the House bill needed, and that July his yes helped enact the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which takes $187 billion out of SNAP through 2034 as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities tallies it. The budget resolution demanding at least $230 billion from the committee over SNAP would have failed in February 2025 had he switched. North Carolina's SNAP rolls have since shrunk by more than 110,000 people.
How do the SNAP work rules Brad Knott voted for apply to a 60-year-old in North Carolina?
Under the law Brad Knott voted for, a North Carolinian in their late 50s or early 60s with no dependent child and no disability now falls under SNAP's time limit, which before applied only through age 54. To keep benefits beyond three months in a 36-month period, that person must put in 80 hours a month of work, volunteering or a work program unless an exemption applies, the state health department says, and CBPP's June 2025 estimate for the Senate Agriculture Committee's version of this change counted 47,000 North Carolinians in that age band at risk.
Who pays the SNAP costs that the law Brad Knott voted for shifted to North Carolina?
North Carolina's counties do, for now: the law Brad Knott voted for cut the federal share of SNAP administrative costs to 25 percent from fiscal 2027, and the state passed that increase straight to counties, an estimated $52 million in the first year. In fiscal 2028 the state itself faces about $140 million toward benefits, based on its fiscal 2025 error rate of 7.36 percent, by CBPP's estimate.
Last updated: 2026-10-27