Nick LaLota voted for a SNAP cut of $187 billion through 2034, roughly 20 percent of the program by CBPP's math. His May 22, 2025 yea was one the House could not lose, since the bill passed 215 to 214. He then gave the final law his aye on July 3, 2025.
LaLota's February 2025 budget vote, also decisive, set a $230 billion target for the SNAP committee. The law shifts most SNAP running costs to states from fiscal 2027. CBPP estimated in June 2025 that 125,000 adults aged 55 to 64 in New York were at risk under the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal with the same new time limit the law adopted.
Nick LaLota's Votes for the SNAP Cuts
- LaLota Voted for the Biggest SNAP Cut on Record. On July 3, 2025, Nick LaLota voted aye as the final law won 218 to 214. Six weeks before, his yea had been part of the May 22 House vote, which carried H.R. 1 by 215 to 214. CBPP's verdict: "The megabill cuts SNAP by $187 billion or about 20 percent by 2034." CBPP also ranks it the largest SNAP cut in history. The final law stretches SNAP's work rules, as the Congressional Budget Office describes them, to veterans, homeless people, parents whose youngest is 14 or older, and adults as old as 64. CBO says that will "reduce participation in SNAP by roughly 2.4 million people in an average month."
- A $230 Billion Target for SNAP's Committee Rode on LaLota's February Budget Vote. LaLota's yea helped H.Con.Res. 14 pass 217 to 215 on February 25, 2025. One defection, his included, would have produced a tie and a defeat. The resolution gave the Agriculture Committee, home of SNAP, a mandate to "reduce the deficit by not less than $230,000,000,000". In May and July 2025 he also voted yes on the procedural rules for debating H.R. 1. The law LaLota voted for on July 3, 2025 cuts SNAP by $187 billion through 2034, CBPP says. Starting in fiscal 2027, the federal match for SNAP administration falls to only 25 percent. States must find the remaining three-quarters themselves.
Which New Yorkers Lose Food Aid Under the Law Nick LaLota Voted For
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate put 125,000 New Yorkers aged 55 to 64 at risk of losing SNAP. CBPP's June 2025 analysis looked at a proposal from the Senate Agriculture Committee that, like the law, pushed the time limit up to age 64; it found 125,000 New York adults aged 55 to 64, childless and not disabled, who could be cut from SNAP in a typical month. Without the work hours, their benefits stop after three months.
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate added 80,000 New York parents of teenagers to the at-risk count. Run on the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal, the same CBPP estimate adds 80,000 New York parents whose youngest child is 14 or older to the at-risk count. The law dropped their exemption from the work rule. A parent's lost benefit shrinks the food budget for the teenager too.
- CBPP's June 2025 estimate put 158,000 and 159,000 New Yorkers in those two groups' households at risk of losing some SNAP. Counting everyone who lives with them, the same CBPP analysis of the Senate Agriculture Committee's plan puts 158,000 people in the older adults' households and 159,000 in the parents' households at risk of losing some SNAP. Grocery money for the whole household drops when one member is cut off.
- New York veterans on SNAP lost their time-limit exemption. CBPP counts roughly 56,000 New York veterans in households using SNAP, on average from 2021 through 2023. That is 9% of the state's veterans. The law removed the time-limit exemption veterans had held, so veterans who are 18 to 64, not disabled and not otherwise exempt are now subject to the limit.
Frequently Asked Questions About Nick LaLota on Food Assistance
What is Nick LaLota's record on food assistance under Trump?
Nick LaLota cast a vote the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act could not have passed without, and a vote on the 2025 budget resolution that would have left it tied, and failed, had he switched. He also voted aye on the final law. CBPP says it cuts SNAP by $187 billion through 2034. The law spreads work rules to older adults, parents of teens and veterans. It also hands states most of SNAP's administrative bill.
Did Nick LaLota vote to cut SNAP?
Yes. Nick LaLota voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22 and July 3, 2025, and the bill could not have cleared the House in May without him. CBPP calls its $187 billion reduction the largest SNAP cut in history. CBO expects 2.4 million fewer people on SNAP in an average month.
Will Long Island adults in their late 50s lose SNAP because of Nick LaLota's vote?
Many could. Nick LaLota voted for a law that extends SNAP's three-month time limit to adults aged 55 to 64 without children or a disability. Looking at the Senate Agriculture Committee's proposal with that same extension, CBPP put 125,000 New Yorkers in that group at risk each month in a June 2025 estimate. They keep benefits only by logging work hours or proving an exemption.
Last updated: 2026-10-27