Rollins: Ag Dept. to ‘Fundamentally Rebuild’ SNAP, Make People ‘Reapply for Their Benefit’
“…5,000 dead people, that was just one month, the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.”
People will be able to receive their SNAP benefits soon, now that the government has reopened.
But Agriculture Department Secretary Brooke Rollins promised significant changes after all the bombshells she’s dropped this past month.
Rollins said on Newsmax:
On day one, when I was sworn in, which was earlier this year, in February, the very first thing I did was send letters to every single state in America and said, “Never before has the federal government asked for the data. But it is a new day. President Trump is the president. We know there’s a lot of fraud. We need to help partner with you all to figure out how to make sure that this money and these benefits go to those who truly need it, and not rife with fraud and corruption.”
29 states, mostly the red states, responded with their data sets, February, March, April. So the numbers that you’re talking through, those are numbers that we have been collecting and analyzing since early summer, late spring, the fact that this spotlight shined on SNAP has allowed us to talk about it.
But here’s the most unbelievable news I have really just over the last few days, that 5,000 dead people, that was just one month, the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.
Now that is what we’re really going to start clamping down on. Half a million are getting two but here’s the really stunning thing. This is just data from those 29 mostly red states.
Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data, what we’re going to find?
It’s going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.
.@SecRollins drops multiple BOMBSHELLS:
-SNAP is going to make EVERY recipient reapply to verify "they can't survive without it"
-Benefits are being paid to nearly 200,000 dead people
-Half a MILLION recipients are double-dipping"This is just data from 29 mostly red states.… pic.twitter.com/CrVBUxWUxz
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 14, 2025
Earlier this month, Rollin revealed that the Biden administration had increased SNAP by almost 40%. The USDA’s investigation found that one guy was receiving benefits in six states.
So far, authorities have arrested 118 people for fraud.
I hope the USDA publishes all of the results from the investigation.
More importantly, though, I hope USDA actually takes action and slashes the waste.
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I VOTED FOR THIS!!!!
Cue the false claims of “racism” in 3-2-1 . . .
Cue the District Court injunction in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
Expecting them to get up both their dead behind and pick up a pen and actually fill out a form must be racist.
Way back in 1972 I attended to Fresno State University for one semester. I was sitting on a bench on campus were two of the protected demographic walked by. One of them was griping and complaining that when she went to register for classes that they made her fill out forms rather than having the forms filled out for her already. Yes, the claim of racism. Enter entered their conversation.
One can hear amusing things on a college campus. Once, while waiting to pick up my son at the end of a semester I found myself on a bench in the middle of campus (Villanova University). Perhaps the best comment I heard from walkers-by was “Man, I raped my ethics final.”
If states refuse to give the data their funding should be terminated.
THIS^^^^^^
As any government change occurs, it takes time and money, and you can’t reduce the time quotient of the problem too far without spending (and wasting) an enormous amount of money. So the best approach is to make (for example) a SNAP2 program with a new card, and migrate SNAP users to it individually, with ID checks and cross-checks to avoid Bob from raking in benefits from multiple areas. As time progresses, the percentage of scammers in the old SNAP program will grow as legit users are removed from the pool, at which point the agency has to be VERY careful because if they deny benefits to one legitimate old person who missed an appointment or such, the media (and Dems) will expand that into a national feeding frenzy. I expect that (or a fake version) will occur in October of 2026.
“…fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit,..”
Ok. That’s the tool we have right now. So, glad for the effort.
Better: the federal government should not be in the business of feeding people. Shut it all down.
Trump won’t always be president. A leftist will eventually be elected by hook or crook, and this gimmee will simply be corrupted again to placate constituency and buy votes.
That’s what the left does. It’s what they always do.
The federal government should not be in the business of feeding people. Shut it all down.
That is how I feel also. I have quit donating to all charities.
If they include a postage paid enevelope I tell them donation from me was stolen by the gov.
I would be ok with a middle ground of going back to the old method: gov’t cheese.
Not just cheese, though that’s the thing people think of. But a basket of actual goods, bought at close to market value, distributed in person weekly.
The old method is still in use. The Fed distributes commodities to states every month for low income seniors and others. The state decides how it’s going to be distributed. It doesn’t get a lot of use in rural areas in my state because seniors aren’t going to drive 200 miles to the nearest distribution center.
They should use the local neighborhood schools as distribution points on Sat/Sun.
The job of government is not charity. That is best left to private individuals and organizations that can set their own rules. Limited government was the ideal due to inefficiency and corruption. Local rules and votes as much as possible decide local issues. The speech by Davy Crockett “Not Yours to Give” was reflective of similar issues faced in the past.
https://www.101bananas.com/library2/crockett.html
Many may dispute the truth of the speech/event. However, the “truthiness” endures. What is the purpose of government spending? Cradle to grave intervention, individual opportunity (not outcome) and no intervention, some local community collective efforts? Roads and schools are socialist efforts we vote for and would be hard to provide individually. What is the purpose of government?
I disagree with you about schools. Government can provide vouchers to citizens with children and let the citizens decide in which (private) school to enroll the child.
Or parents find privates schools themselves. Get rid of the public schools and commensurate tax burden and they’ll bloom like flowers everywhere.
I stopped giving to name brand charities decades ago. The badge and gun people extract charity from me.
I WILL give to church food banks or LOCAL charities.
Best immediate cure . Dramatically alter the list of qualified food to rice, basic beans (not coffee), unprocessed cheese, milk, meat under $5 a pound. Maybe a few more items. Watch only the needy get fed overnight
If these dead people don’t get their food stamps they will die all over again.
You gotta make sure the dead aren’t voting, too.
What they really need is to be born again.
And that’s not a government project.
If I don’t get my Grecian Formula I’ll dye all over again.
This is EXACTLY what I voted for. I don’t mind helping a hungry American to get some food. But the bloated fraud riddled programs are literally a joke right now. More of this please!!!!
What I do mind is feeding some 400 lb lazy piece of garbage who refuses to take care of themselves.
They should have to re-apply at least as often as they have to renew a DL/ID. You should also have to renew your voting registration. (And, no, I don’t think you should be able to do it all at the DMV; that would thoroughly muck things up.)
And the state should have to certify (with evidence) to the fed gov’t that they have purged people from at least the voter and charity rolls every year.
I like this idea. Make everyone reapply in January; cut off benefits if no reapplication within 90 days. Subsequently everyone must renew every five years; failure to renew cuts off benefits.
I also would like to discuss requiring a physical street address for receiving benefits – no post office boxes. Finally it would be easy to put a flag in the system to stop multiple payments to a single address as the default. If there is a legitimate reason for this occurring it could be easily straightened out with a visit by all parties to a government office.
Definitely a physical address. Require a DL or State ID card with the physical address on it. Reapply quarterly if working age 18-65 (or full SSA retirement age) and if at retirement age drop it to annual. No cash. Only In kind food box. Pick up a box each week Sat/Sun at local neighborhood school. Bring box to shut ins.
ID card requirement is rayciss.
Sorry sir, all claims of ‘ists, isms and phobes’ without credible evidence proving the claim beyond reasonable doubt will be rejected and the claimant subjected to 30 days in the public stocks outside the County Courthouse and the public is encouraged to use the rattan cane to deliver up to three strikes apiece. Following which you are based from eligibility for any Federal $ directly or indirectly for a period of 6 months.
“Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale California…”
Nope. Hand this back to the States. No grants or federal monies of any kind.
BTW, one other element of this: someone will eventually point out that half a million double-dipping and fewer than 200,000 dead is a drop in the bucket.
Which should (but won’t for the people pointing it out) show that we’re providing this benefit to way too many people to start with. 200,000 should be a MUCH bigger “drop” than it currently is. We spend way too much money (apart from the issue of spending it at all from the federal government) on this stuff.
“the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.”
So then, subclass grift in the USA has successfully attained lightspeed.
It would not be right to cut off food for the dead. How will they have the energy to vote for democrats?
Food Stamps and Welfare should only be for American Citizens. Plus they should be on limited time line (2 years) of using and have a limit to reapply to 10 years. Food stamps should have limited things that can be bought.
I think it was easier to do non-government charity when most people lived in small towns and didn’t move around, and away from their families, as much. The complexity of modern life creates demand for government action.
This is a very bad thing.
Your point implying the loss of sense of community is well taken but I don’t see why their Family couldn’t still send some geographically distant relative money just as easily as the Fed Gov’t? Why can’t these folks who move away integrate into their new community building new relationships at work, school, their religious congregation, new friends and neighbors?
I don’t see how someone moving away from their social support system creates a duty for the Federal taxpayer to fund their economic failures….and to be clear that’s exactly what ‘welfare’ is. If one qualifies for ‘welfare’ then by definition they haven’t achieved sufficient financial success (by govt metrics) to become/remain fully independent. One alternative is to require claimants to ‘go home’ IOW only distribute the ‘poor law’ benefits in the County they came from. Maybe use HS grad location and/or birth location as the tie in for where benefits could be received.
The worst part is the propaganda machine will never avail the Kool-Aid crowd of this data and the knuckle dragger will be in the streets.
1 in 8 people are on SNAP (USDA says 12.3 %) That’s too many people to be sustainable. Or the amount of fraud is rampant.
No money for SNAP if states don’t provide the information that the federal government requires.
No federal funds at all. End it and let the States pick up the tab.
The Federal Government must end SNAP and the rest of the Federal welfare state. They are wholly unauthorized in the constitution – there is no enumerated power. And no, the “welfare” clause has nothing to do with taking money from Peter and handing it to Paul, to ensure his votes.
If the several States want to do it, great. Depends on their state constitutions.
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