The 2026 election could help determine the future of who qualifies for SNAP and Medicaid benefits and how easily people can get them.
Summit County voters will help choose members of Congress and Ohio’s next governor. Those legislators plays a role in Medicaid, which provides health insurance for low-income adults, and SNAP, a food assistance program.
President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law last July, made major changes to both SNAP and Medicaid. The next Congress could keep those changes or try to roll them back. Ohio’s next governor will oversee how the state carries them out, including new work requirements for Medicaid, which insures about a quarter of residents across Ohio and more than one in three in Summit County…