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1 October
6:41 pm

thousands upon thousands of people in Maine who are going to lose their EBT benefits right after the election

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Matt Dunlap, at Maine 2nd Congressional District General Election Debate (WMTW)

6:41 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific claim about a large number of Maine residents losing EBT benefits as a result of the 'one big beautiful bill' — verifiable against the bill's provisions and projected impact data for Maine
What we foundThe core fact is real — thousands of Mainers have lost or are projected to lose SNAP/EBT benefits — but the claim that losses would occur 'right after the election' implies a single discrete post-election cutoff event that does not match how the losses are actually occurring.
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