Senate Republicans on Friday unveiled revisions to President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” sharpening error-rate calculations for SNAP funding shares and adding waiver authority for noncontiguous states ahead of a critical vote.

Senate Republicans’ latest iteration of President Trump’s supplemental nutrition assistance program overhaul tightens the methodology by which states could be required to share in benefit costs and introduces new exemptions for Alaska, Hawaii, and other noncontiguous jurisdictions.

Under the proposal, states whose payment error rates exceed 6% in fiscal 2028 would cover a portion of SNAP benefit costs that are currently fully federally funded. The updated text permits states to choose whether their 2028 match is based on error-rate data from fiscal 2025 or fiscal 2026; in fiscal 2029 and subsequent years, calculations would revert to using data from three years prior.

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