Hunger-Free Future Act of 2025
Official title: To prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from issuing a thrifty food plan update under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 or reevaluation that would result in an increase in food insecurity.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Hunger-Free Future Act of 2025
This bill prohibits any reevaluation or update to the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) that results in an increase in food insecurity (i.e., an increase in the number of households that lack adequate food as a result of having insufficient money and other resources to acquire food).
As background, USDA created the TFP (the cost of purchasing a nutritionally adequate low-cost diet), which is used to determine maximum monthly benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). USDA calculates the cost of the TFP (i.e., the market basket of goods) each year to account for food price inflation. Under a provision of the 2018 farm bill, USDA must reevaluate the market basket of goods every five years based on current food prices, food composition data, consumption patterns, and dietary guidance.
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Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Education, Dept of
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Energy, Dept of
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2489: Hunger-Free Future Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2489/
"H.R. 2489: Hunger-Free Future Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2489/.
H.R. 2489, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2489/.
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