More than 665,000 Californians are expected to lose federal food assistance following the passage of President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which slashes the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) by over $186 billion over ten years. California, which has more than 5.3 million SNAP recipients — the most of any US state — has already seen food bank enrolment rise and its benefit rolls shrink by around 6 percent between July 2025 and February 2026, even before the full cuts took effect. In response, California is advancing a proposed one-time 5 percent tax on the assets of the state's roughly 200 billionaires, which gathered over 1.5 million signatures and is set to appear on the November ballot, though it faces fierce opposition from tech industry figures including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who has spent more than $57 million campaigning against it.