The PresidencyElections Spending Bailouts Regulations Rules Corruption Spending / Income security (the safety net) / Food and nutrition assistance Spending · subcategory
Food and nutrition assistance
SNAP (food stamps), school meals, and WIC. Part of Income security (the safety net) . FY2025 net outlays: $150B , 21% of the category and 2.13% of all federal spending. The largest program is SNAP (food stamps) ($106B).
21%
of Income security (the safety net)
+0.3%
change from FY2024 ($149B)
7
programs (accounts) with FY2025 spending
Every program
7 accounts with FY2025 spending in Food and nutrition assistance, largest first. Hover or tap a bar for details.
SNAP (food stamps)Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program · Food and Nutrition Service
$106B Child nutrition (school meals)Child Nutrition Programs · Food and Nutrition Service
$33.4B WIC (Women, Infants & Children)Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) · Food and Nutrition Service
$7.96B Funds for Strengthening Markets, Income, and Supply (section 32)Agricultural Marketing Service
$1.28B Commodity Assistance ProgramFood and Nutrition Service
$486M Nutrition Programs AdministrationFood and Nutrition Service
$163M Federal AssistanceFederal Emergency Management Agency
$28M
How the total adds up
Programs (the 7 accounts above) $150B Net outlays, matching OMB Historical Table 3.2 $150B
All programs, sortable
Sparklines show each program in 2025 dollars, FY2000–2025.
Program Type FY2024 FY2025 Change FY2000–2025
SNAP (food stamps) Food and Nutrition Service $107B $106B −0.4% Child nutrition (school meals) Food and Nutrition Service $32.7B $33.4B +2.0% WIC (Women, Infants & Children) Food and Nutrition Service $7.26B $7.96B +9.7% Funds for Strengthening Markets, Income, and Supply (section 32) Agricultural Marketing Service $1.53B $1.28B −16% Commodity Assistance Program Food and Nutrition Service $513M $486M −5.3% Nutrition Programs Administration Food and Nutrition Service $190M $163M −14% Federal Assistance Federal Emergency Management Agency $163M $28M −83%
Food and nutrition assistance since 1993
Net outlays in 2025 dollars, fiscal years 1993–2025.
$0
$50B
$100B
$150B
$200B
$250B
Clinton
Bush
Obama
Trump I
Biden
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
2025
Method. Outlays are cash actually spent in the fiscal year (FY2025 ran October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025), as recorded in the Office of Management and Budget's Public Budget Database, released with the President's FY2027 Budget (April 2026), summed by budget function (category), subfunction (subcategory), and account (program). Every subcategory on this site reconciles to the dollar with OMB Historical Table 3.2, and the 2025 total matches Table 1.1 and Treasury's final Monthly Treasury Statement. Payments between government accounts (such as general-fund transfers into trust funds, and the matching receipts) are netted inside each subcategory so no program is counted twice. Premiums, fees, and other collections that agencies subtract from their spending are shown as offsets. Inflation-adjusted figures use OMB's GDP (chained) price index (Table 10.1). Mandatory and discretionary labels are OMB's budget-enforcement (BEA) categories.
Sources: Office of Management and Budget: Public Budget Database, outlays by account (FY2027 Budget); Historical Tables 1.1, 3.2, and 10.1 (April 2026); U.S. Treasury, Final Monthly Treasury Statement for FY2025. Full links on the Sources page.