House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the House GOP's proposed changes to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Sunday, arguing that states will better administer food stamp benefits if they have to shoulder more of the costs.

"The states are not properly administering this because they don't have enough skin in the game," Johnson told CBS’s Margaret Brennan in an interview on "Face the Nation."

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that the GOP-controlled House narrowly passed early Thursday morning after an overnight session calls for the federal share of SNAP costs to drop from the current 100 percent level to 95 percent in 2028.

States could be forced to pick up more of the tab after that based on their payment error rates.

"We are not cutting SNAP," Johnso

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