Roger Marshall on Food Assistance: The SNAP Cuts, the SNAP Cost Shift to Kansas, and School Meals

Roger Marshall, the Republican U.S. senator from Kansas, cast a deciding vote on July 1, 2025 for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which expanded SNAP work requirements and shifted SNAP costs to the states; one year later Kansas Appleseed reported that 24,000 Kansans, including 11,000 children, had lost SNAP benefits. The bill passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President breaking the tie.

Before that, Marshall voted against a June 30, 2025 motion on SNAP, voted to waive a point of order that the SNAP cost shift was an unfunded mandate on the states, and voted in both 2025 budget debates against striking the instructions that led to the food assistance cuts. The cost shift means Kansas will owe about $40 million in fiscal year 2028, on top of $16.4 million a year in new SNAP administrative costs.

Roger Marshall's Votes on SNAP and School Meals

• Marshall Cast a Deciding Vote for the Law That Cut SNAP. On July 1, 2025, Roger Marshall voted yes on H.R. 1, which passed 50 to 50 with the Vice President's tie-breaking vote. Kansas Appleseed attributed the loss of SNAP for 24,000 Kansans to the law's expanded work requirements and administrative barriers.
• Marshall Voted to Waive the Unfunded Mandate Objection to the SNAP Cost Shift. On June 30, 2025, Marshall voted yes on the motion to waive the Budget Act against Senator Amy Klobuchar's point of order that the bill's SNAP changes were an unfunded intergovernmental mandate; it passed 51 to 48. Starting October 1, 2027, most states must pay 5 to 15 percent of SNAP benefit costs for the first time in the program's history.
• Marshall Voted Against a Motion to Protect SNAP in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Marshall voted no on Senator Ben Ray Lujan's motion to commit the bill on SNAP, which failed 49 to 51.
• Marshall Voted Against Removing the Food Assistance Cuts From the First Budget Plan. On February 21, 2025, Marshall voted no on an amendment to strike reconciliation instructions requiring damaging cuts to programs critical to rural Americans and food assistance for American families; it failed 47 to 53. The same day he voted no on a point of order against legislation that would cut funding from the school lunch or school breakfast programs, which failed 49 to 51.
• Marshall Voted Against Striking the Agriculture Committee's Cut Instructions. On April 4, 2025, Marshall voted no on an amendment to strike the instructions to the Committee on Agriculture in the second budget resolution; it failed 47 to 51. The Agriculture Committee writes SNAP law, and those instructions led to the SNAP changes in the final bill.

What the SNAP Cuts Roger Marshall Voted For Mean for Kansas

• 11,000 Kansas children lost food assistance. Kansas Appleseed reported that about 11,000 Kansas children have lost access to SNAP since the law was signed, and that families who lose SNAP also lose automatic enrollment in free school meals, putting children at risk of falling through the cracks.
• Kansas food banks report the highest hunger in two decades. Harvesters said it is seeing the highest demand for food in two decades, with about one in seven people experiencing food insecurity, and its chief resource officer said food banks "simply cannot fill the gap" left by SNAP.
• Kansas taxpayers will pick up new SNAP costs. Kansas's share of SNAP administrative costs rose to 75 percent, costing the state $16.4 million more starting this fiscal year, and based on its 9.44 percent error rate Kansas would owe about $40 million in benefit costs in fiscal year 2028, money the state must cut elsewhere or raise.
• Kansas schools may drop free meals for all students. With fewer students directly certified through SNAP, Kansas schools could leave the Community Eligibility Provision that lets them serve free breakfast and lunch to every student, Kansas Appleseed warned.

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Last updated: 2026-10-28

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