Farm payments rise while food stamp help shrinks
H.R. 1 — One Big Beautiful Bill Act · Filed by Jodey Arrington (R-TX) · Introduced May 20, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
The bill raises the most money one farmer can get each year. It goes from $125,000 to $155,000. It gives farmers rights to grow crops on 30 million new acres. It makes food stamp rules stricter for poor people and immigrants. It cuts federal money that states use to run food stamp programs.
Who it affects
Large farms and crop farmers get more government money. Poor families and immigrants get less food stamp help. States will have to pay more to run food stamp programs.
One thing to notice
The bill gives 30 million acres of subsidy rights to farmers. This is based on what they planted from 2019 to 2023. At the same time, food stamp rules get stricter and federal funding to states drops.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- May 20, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 78”
- May 22, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 215 - 214, 1 Present (Roll no. 145). (text: CR H2235-2334)”
- Jul 1, 2025 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 50. Record Vote Number: 372”
- Jul 3, 2025 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Jul 4, 2025 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-21”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1275 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1905 reports from Jun 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $352,312,191 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 3 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 100% of bills with any report.
Jodey Arrington, who sponsored the bill, received $573,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — $15,770,000 in 2 reports
- National Association of Realtors — $14,580,000 in 1 report
- Comcast Corporation — $6,210,000 in 2 reports
- American Medical Association — $5,643,000 in 2 reports
- Amazon.com Services LLC — $4,360,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- subsidy — Money the government gives to farmers to help pay for crops.
- food stamp — Federal money that helps poor families buy food.
- federal — Belonging to the whole U.S. government, not just one state.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (50,094 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 25, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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