An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.

Introduced: Feb 4, 2026Updated: Feb 9, 2026

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Summary

This is a broad budget package covering nutrition, farming, energy, science and defense. In SNAP it bases benefits on the 2021 USDA Thrifty Food Plan for a four person family with a defined re‑evaluation and annual updates starting in 2025. It expands work rules with many exemptions and adds a temporary Alaska and Hawaii relief through 2028.

Energy provisions broaden utility allowances for the elderly or disabled and refine how energy aid is counted while internet fees are excluded from shelter deductions.

Through 2031 the bill expands farm programs including crop insurance, price support, and dairy and sugar provisions, raises payment caps, and streamlines who can receive payments. It adds a qualified pass‑through entity and boosts beginning farmer support, conservation funding, and rural innovation. It also authorizes large defense and energy funding and makes broad budget changes including debt-limit increases and rescissions of several unobligated IRA funds.

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Sec. 1

Social Welfare

Revises the Food and Nutrition Act to define a formal ‘thrifty food plan’ for a four‑person family using the USDA’s Thrifty Food Plan (2021) as the basis for uniform SNAP allotments, with market baskets adjustable only through a defined re‑evaluation process. Sets household-size adjustment percentages (1‑person 30% up to 9+ persons adding 22% per additional person, capped at 200%), requires geographic cost adjustments for Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (not exceeding costs in the 50 states/DC), and mandates annual CPI‑based cost updates beginning October 1, 2025. Authorizes a re‑evaluation not earlier than October 1, 2027 with the constraint that costs must remain neutral, and updates internal cross‑references to reflect new numbering (u)(3) instead of the prior (u)(4).

Sec. 2

Social Welfare

Expands SNAP work requirements for able-bodied adults by adding exemptions (for individuals under 18 or over 65; medically unfit; parents or primary caregivers of a dependent child under 14; those who are pregnant; and certain American Indian groups) and creates a temporary, conditional exemption for noncontiguous states (Alaska and Hawaii) from the work rule if the state demonstrates good-faith progress toward compliance, with quarterly reporting, a plan and milestones, and possible early termination for noncompliance. The noncontiguous state definition excludes Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the exemption lasts no later than December 31, 2028 (and cannot be renewed beyond that date).

Sec. 3

Government Operations

Expands and clarifies energy-related provisions in SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program): (a) standard utility allowances will be available for households that include an elderly or disabled member, broadening who can receive this help; (b) the treatment of third-party energy assistance payments in SNAP calculations is adjusted to distinguish between households with and without an elderly or disabled member and to apply state-law rules when such a member is present.

Sec. 4

Government Operations

Adds a new rule to exclude internet service fees from the excess shelter expense deduction used to determine SNAP benefits, ensuring internet costs do not count toward shelter-related deductions.

Sec. 5

Social Welfare

Implements a State quality control incentive by tying the federal share of SNAP allotment costs to a state's payment error rate (as defined in the related provision). Beginning in FY2028, the federal share ranges from 85% to 100% based on error-rate thresholds, with states' shares from 0% to 15%; for FY2028, states may elect to use their 2025 or 2026 error rates, and from FY2029 onward the rate from the third year prior is used. Delayed implementation can apply if early-year error rates are high (pushing start to FY2029 or FY2030), the Secretary cannot exceed the applicable federal share, and the authority is broadened to cover the disposition of a State share under another provision.

Sec. 6

Administrative Procedure

An amendment to the Food and Nutrition Act changes how administrative costs are shared between the agency and the federal government. It sets the agency’s share at 50 percent through fiscal year 2026 and reduces it to 25 percent for fiscal year 2027 and beyond, effectively increasing the federal government’s share of those costs after 2026.

Sec. 7

Education

Economics and Fiscal Policy

Sets a time-limited funding authorization for the National Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program, changing the prior indefinite authorization to a fixed window through fiscal year 2025 and signaling that funding beyond that year would require new authorization.

Sec. 8

Immigration

Social Welfare

SNAP eligibility for household members is limited to individuals who are U.S. residents and fall into one of four categories: U.S. citizens or nationals; lawful permanent residents (immigrants) as defined by the Immigration and Nationality Act (excluding temporary entrants like visitors, tourists, diplomats, and students); Cuban and Haitian entrants; or individuals lawfully residing in the United States under a Compact of Free Association.

Sec. 1

Lands and Resources

This provision cancels unobligated (unused) funds previously appropriated for forestry programs under Public Law 117–169, specifically rescinding the unused balances from sections 23001(a)(3)-(4); 23002(a)(1)-(4); 23003(a)(2); and 23005. The effect is to reduce the total funds available for forestry by the amounts that were not obligated, preventing those unused funds from being carried forward or used.

Sec. 1

Agriculture

Economics and Fiscal Policy

Starting with the 2025 crop year, the effective reference price rises from 85 to 88. A new reference price schedule fixes per-unit prices for covered crops (for example, wheat $6.35 per bushel, corn $4.10 per bushel, soybeans $10.00 per bushel, etc.). Beginning with the 2031 crop year, each commodity's reference price increases by 0.5% annually, and no price may exceed 113% of its base price.