FoodShare Action Alert

Talking Points and Action

• Distribute the action alert (below and attached) to your networks.
  • Ask your members, clients, and friends/families to call their state Senator and state Representative.
  • Ask your members, clients, and friends/families to share this alert with their networks and ask contacts to make calls.
    
• Organization members, sign onto a letter supporting increased state funding to keep SNAP running here
  • If you have connections to local food pantries or other aging or disability groups, encourage them to sign onto the letter.
    
• Immediate action is needed by the state legislature. Some new requirements went into effect Oct 1 and more impacts will be implemented Nov 1 and Jan 1^st.

The federal reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) was signed into law July 4, 2025. H.R. 1 made cuts and changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known as FoodShare in Wisconsin.

These changes mean it will cost Wisconsin more to run the FoodShare program. The state must do more work to meet the new requirements, which increases the costs of running the program, while the federal funding that helps states pay for the cost of running the program is being reduced at the same time.

State budgets did not budget enough money to cover increased costs and less federal funding for SNAP. That means the state legislature must allocate more state money so Wisconsin can keep running the FoodShare program well and the way the federal government wants. See the full document here.