LANSING — According to new data, more than 167,000 Michigan residents are no longer receiving food assistance benefits after Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” which Mike Rogers supports and called a “monumental victory” for working families, gutted SNAP to give out tax breaks to billionaires. 

According to MLive, policy experts and anti-hunger advocates say the Rogers-backed legislation has “created more red tape, causing those who are already struggling with the high cost of groceries to lose their benefits.”

Rogers, a corrupt multimillionaire who owns a Florida mansion, has ballooned his net worth up to $14.6 million by advising shady foreign interests and the industries he regulated in Congress, holds up to $2.6 million in AI-related investments, is profiting from controversial data center projects and rent increases, and is suspected of double dipping on taxpayer-funded pensions.

Mike Rogers embraces Trump at rally in Port Huron | REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

As Michiganders go hungry and costs skyrocket, Rogers has continued to embrace Trump in the final days of his campaign, admitted he only entered the Senate race because Trump told him to, and has repeatedly said that supporting Trump’s agenda is his reason for running. Rogers has also said that Michiganders who blamed his and Trump’s agenda for driving up costs are “nuts” and have “Trump derangement.”

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MLive: 167,000 Michiganders no longer getting food benefits after changes to SNAP

• The number of Michigan residents receiving food benefits has dropped sharply since lawmakers enacted stricter rules for the biggest federal food aid program last year.

• More than 167,000 Michiganders are no longer enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps, after President Donald Trump’s legislation dubbed “One Big Beautiful Bill” was passed in July 2025.

• [P]olicy experts and anti-hunger advocates say the changes have created more red tape, causing those who are already struggling with the high cost of groceries to lose their benefits.

• “We know that food insecurity has been increasing in Michigan over the last couple of years, particularly among children and older adults,” said Julie Cassidy, a policy analyst from the Michigan League for Public Policy, a nonprofit advocacy organization. “And so obviously, when people are losing access to SNAP, that’s only going to make the problem worse.”

• SNAP participation is now at its lowest level in 17 years, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, outpacing previous estimates from the Congressional Budget Office on how many people would be affected by the policy changes.

• In Michigan, 167,166 people, including 56,417 children, have fallen off SNAP benefits between August 2025 to September 2026. That marks a 12% drop in participation.

• Adding to that, the law also restricted a program that ties utility assistance to SNAP benefits. These changes make it look like households have more money available for food than they actually do, causing their benefits to drop.

• It’s estimated this will cut SNAP benefits for roughly 670,000 households across the country. In Michigan, the budget for the utility aid program, known as Heat & Eat, was cut entirely.

• As the new SNAP rules went into effect, Michigan food banks, already strained by high demand, braced for an influx of people. Since then, some have reportedly seen numbers spike as roughly half of American families struggle to afford groceries.

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