The One Big Beautiful Bill Act takes money out of SNAP in two ways, by stretching the program's three-month time limit to more adults and by billing states for more of its costs, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities puts the combined cut at $187 billion through 2034, a reduction without precedent in the program's history. Derrick Van Orden, whose district is Wisconsin's 3rd, gave the House version its one-vote margin on May 22, 2025, then voted for the final law on July 3, 2025.
Van Orden's deciding February 2025 budget vote is where the Agriculture Committee's savings target began: at least $230 billion from the panel that sets SNAP's rules. In Wisconsin, the state's share of FoodShare's administrative costs climbed from 50% to 75% on October 1, 2026, and the state health department estimates the expanded work rules reach about 43,700 FoodShare recipients.
Derrick Van Orden's Votes on SNAP and FoodShare
- Time Limits and a State Cost Shift Cut SNAP $187 Billion; Van Orden Decided the House Vote in May 2025 and Voted for the Law in July. On May 22, 2025, H.R. 1 passed the House 215 to 214, and without Derrick Van Orden's yes it would have failed. On July 3, 2025, his second yes helped the final law through, 218 to 214. "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found, the deepest SNAP cut on record. The three-month time limit now stretches to adults as old as 64 and to parents whose youngest is 14 or older, and the final law also ends the exemptions veterans and homeless people had; budget office analysts expect the change to "reduce participation in SNAP by roughly 2.4 million people in an average month."
- Shifting SNAP's Administrative Costs to States Adds $32.4 Million to Wisconsin's FoodShare Bill, Enacted With Van Orden's July 2025 Vote. Van Orden's February 25, 2025 yes on H.Con.Res. 14 came in a 217-to-215 vote, so his switch would have produced a tie, and the resolution would have failed. The resolution told the Agriculture Committee, which writes SNAP law, to "reduce the deficit by not less than $230,000,000,000". Later he voted for the floor rules for H.R. 1 in May 2025 and again in July 2025, and on July 3, 2025 for the final law, 218 to 214. Among the law's SNAP changes that followed from that instruction was a shift of costs to states: beginning with fiscal 2027, Washington pays just 25 percent of what states spend administering SNAP, down from half, and the states carry the rest. Wisconsin's portion of FoodShare's running costs therefore rose by half, to three-quarters, a change Wisconsin's health department prices at an extra $32.4 million.
How the SNAP Cuts Derrick Van Orden Voted For Reach FoodShare Households in Wisconsin
- About 43,700 FoodShare recipients now face the law's expanded work rules. Wisconsin's health department estimates the broader SNAP work rules reach about 43,700 FoodShare recipients, which now cover working-age adults up to 64 unless a child younger than 14 lives with them, so parents of high schoolers aged 14 to 17 lost the exemption they had. Each must document 80 hours of work or training every month or lose food aid after three months.
- Older Wisconsin adults without children, 26,000 of them, headed CBPP's June 2025 list of those at risk of losing SNAP. In June 2025, scoring the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal, whose two expansions match the rules the law then adopted, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities counted roughly 26,000 Wisconsin residents between 55 and 64 with no children or disability, plus 10,000 whose youngest child was 14 or older, who stood to lose SNAP in a typical month.
- Wisconsin's added FoodShare costs led the governor's administration to ask for $69 million more. To cover the new administrative expenses, the Evers administration and a coalition of advocates asked the Legislature to add $69 million to FoodShare, the Wisconsin Examiner reported.
Frequently Asked Questions About Derrick Van Orden on Food Assistance
What is Derrick Van Orden's record on food assistance under Trump?
Derrick Van Orden's yes on May 22, 2025 decided the House version of H.R. 1, and his July 3, 2025 vote for the final law locked in a SNAP cut the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities sizes at $187 billion through 2034. Months before, in February 2025, his deciding budget vote had set the $230 billion savings target for the committee that writes SNAP law. In Wisconsin the law raised the state's FoodShare administrative share to 75% and extended work rules to about 43,700 recipients.
How do the SNAP time limits Derrick Van Orden voted for work for a 60-year-old in western Wisconsin?
Under the law Derrick Van Orden voted for, a 60-year-old FoodShare recipient in Wisconsin without a disability or a child under 14 at home now falls under the time limit that used to stop at younger adults: unless the person logs 80 hours a month of work or training, benefits end after three months. Older adults in that situation were the largest group the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities flagged in Wisconsin in its June 2025 estimate, which scored a Senate Agriculture Committee proposal carrying that same expansion.
Who pays for FoodShare's added costs after Derrick Van Orden's vote?
Wisconsin does: the law Derrick Van Orden voted for left Washington paying 25 percent of the cost of administering SNAP, so since October 1, 2026 the state has paid 75%, an additional $32.4 million by the health department's estimate.
Last updated: 2026-10-27