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Voters are concerned about waste, fraud and abuse in food stamps, and the state cost-sharing mechanism is a commonsense way to make states pay for enabling fraud.
New Rainey Center national polling of 1,002 registered voters (June 30 to July 2, 2026) shows the SNAP state cost-share requirement enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) is one of the most popular reforms tested, with majority support from Republicans, Independents, and even Harris voters.
Republican, Independent and moderate voters reject a two-year delay and reject adding to the debt to pay for one, and nearly half of Republican voters say they would be more likely to back a primary challenger against a Senator who votes to overturn the reform. Any Republican who voted to undo President Trump’s anti-fraud agenda by delaying the cost sharing mechanism would be rejecting the will of Republican Trump voters and would risk the ire of the GOP base.
Even when voters were presented with pro-delay arguments, voters support commonsense measures to make states pay for waste, fraud and abuse.
Delaying the cost share requirement would increase the national debt, limit the GOP’s ability to run on Democrat-state fraud in the midterms and allow Democrats to quietly overturn one of the most vital provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
