As the 2026 midterms loom, voters are restless and eager to penalize those in power. Every election starting with 2006, with the exception of 2012, has been a change election.

Among the key pieces in the fiscal package passed last week by House Republicans: cuts to the federal program that helps low-income people pay for groceries, formerly known as food stamps. The GOP aims to tighten work requirements,

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said Democrats are "lying" about the sweeping GOP plan to cut $1 trillion from federal health and food programs.

Millions of low-income Americans, including families with children, could lose their food stamp benefits under House Republicans’ newly passed tax and spending cuts package, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released Thursday.

Republicans defend budget legislation as economic plan to make life more affordable amid fierce partisan battle over social program cuts

There are certain elected officials who appear to have a certain orange hue about them," one Democrat scoffed at a tanning provision originally in the bill.

Proposed cuts to the country’s largest food aid program could slash benefits currently going to one in six Oregonians or shift more than $1 billion in program costs to the state in each two-year budget cycle.

Others could see their monthly benefits reduced if the bill were to become law, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Republicans are touting House passage of a megabill to fund Trump’s agenda as a win for Americans. Democrats slam it as benefiting the rich and hurting low-income people.