Trump's Ag Secretary: States Will Either Open Their Books So We Can Detect SNAP Fraud, Or We're Cutting Them Off

This is huge.

Can't wait for a left-wing rogue judge to be "randomly" assigned to the lawsuit and immediately grant an injunction.

States that refuse to open their books on food-stamp spending are about to feel real pressure from Washington. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told the Trump cabinet Tuesday that the USDA will cut off federal SNAP funds to any state that keeps hiding its data -- a direct response to what she called a mountain of fraud sitting inside a program used by 42 million Americans.

Rollins said the problem came into full view earlier this year, when the USDA asked every governor to hand over their SNAP data so federal investigators could finally track where the money was going. Only 29 states -- almost all Republican-led -- cooperated. The others, including California, New York, and Minnesota, refused outright. Rollins said that refusal has consequences. Starting next week, she announced, "the money stops moving" until those states comply.

Rollins said the partial dataset already reviewed shows the program is bleeding taxpayer dollars on an astonishing scale. She pointed to 186,000 dead Americans still receiving benefits -- and that's just from the states that turned over their records. She told Newsmax the deeper the USDA digs, the more outrageous the findings become: EBT cards with balances over $10,000, cards untouched for years, and some issued to people who never existed.

With just the information provided by the red states, she's already eliminated a good amount of fraud.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

MAJOR: Over 800,000 people have officially been removed from SNAP, confirmed by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.

She highlights that the fraud is off the charts:

- 500,000 people receiving benefits twice.
- 186,000 dead people receiving benefits
- People receiving benefits in SIX different states

This is an incredible start. Keep removing more. No more robbing the American taxpayer.

"800,000 of those 42 million have moved off of food stamps, which is hopefully the plan with better jobs, higher wages."

"We found 186,000 dead people or dead people's Social Security numbers being used, 500,000 people receiving benefits more than twice, we had a couple of people receiving benefits in six states."

We're living in a socialist country, with people paid a fortune for doing nothing. By allowing fraud at an industrial scale, they've backdoored socialism into law without a single vote in Congress.

posted by Ace at 03:30 PM

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