How Republicans messed up on Project 2025.
Federal SNAP funding is ending immediately, threatening food access for 42 million Americans—many of whom are children, seniors, or disabled—while health insurance costs are also spiking. These outcomes are not accidental but stem from Republican policy goals laid out in Project 2025 and enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last summer. The most severe cuts were originally timed to hit after the midterms, but their effects are arriving sooner than planned, revealing the scale of the harm earlier than intended.
