The Safety Net Is Being Cut: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Does to Medicaid and SNAP

The One Big Beautiful Bill just made the biggest single cut to the social safety net in American history. More than one trillion dollars removed from Medicaid over ten years. $186 billion cut from SNAP. And the blueprint for every single cut was written in 2023 — published openly — and almost nobody read it. Today we are going through it line by line. The numbers, the page references, and the people who will pay the price. Let's have this conversation.00:00 — Disclaimer01:27 — Mission of Episode02:43 — Opening05:31 — The Background: How the cuts actually work — work requirements, six-month redeterminations, provider tax restrictions, and the Arkansas and Georgia precedents10:18 — The Data: 11.8 million lose Medicaid, 17 million uninsured by 2034, and who is carrying the weight of these cuts13:50 — Personal Truth: When they call a program a burden, they've already decided what they're going to do to it20:29 — Close: What comes next, and what you can do before January 2027Medicaid cuts, SNAP cuts, One Big Beautiful Bill, Project 2025, work requirements, Roger Severino, Daren Bakst, safety net, Black Americans healthcare, food assistance, Affordable Care Act, CBO projections, Johns Hopkins, NAACP LDF, Arkansas Medicaid, Georgia Medicaid,SourcesCBO analysis — cbo.gov NAACP LDF breakdown — naacpldf.orgProject 2025 full text — project2025.org Center for American Progress — americanprogress.org