Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins vowed to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), revealing waste on Fox News over the weekend.
Rollins made the comments a few days after two judges told the USDA to use contingency funds to cover SNAP benefits.
Those on SNAP faced no money on November 1 due to the Schumer shutdown.
It sucks that none of us are shocked by this news:
Day One of USDA, February 13, is we sent letters to every governor in America, being very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP. Zero. We asked every state, for the first time in history, and this was in February, to send us their data and let us, with DOGE and a war room, actually start going through this data to better understand how this explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden.We increased almost 40% on this program in just a couple of years under the Biden administration. Of course, we know they were trying to buy the election, but that’s a conversation for another time. And since we have asked for that data, 29 states have complied, of course, almost all the red states, couple of the, you know, the couple blue states too.But in that data, and I haven’t talked about this yet publicly, in that data, we have found, we’ve studied about $100 billion in SNAP.We have found thousands and thousands of of illegal use of the EBT card. We have been moving people off of SNAP. We’ve got almost 700,000 people, I think, we’ve moved off just since the president took office. We’ve arrested about 118 people. So this has been ongoing.But Rachel, to your point, what this conversation has allowed is a national spotlight on a broken and corrupt program.We found one guy in six different states getting benefits. We found about 5000 people that are dead who are still getting benefits.Like it is time to drastically reform this program so that we can make sure that those who are truly needy, truly vulnerable are getting what they need, and the rest of the corruption goes away and we can serve the American taxpayer.
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