Posted on 11/18/2025 9:48:42 AM PST by Red Badger
If there’s any good that’s come from the government shutdown, it’s exposing all the fraud being committed to exploit the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
To be sure, there are millions of needy Americans who were hurting from being deprived of SNAP as they tried to support children and keep their families from going hungry. This is not about them. This is about the other people — the individuals who dip into this program unjustly at the expense of the taxpayer.
Just the News reported that Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Steven Vaden has indicated his agency is engaging in data collection relating to SNAP across several states to see where funds for the program are going.
So far, what he’s uncovered is not promising.
Vaden cited an instance of one individual getting SNAP in six separate states.
Another person had over $50,000 loaded onto their electronic benefits card.
EBT cards work like credit cards for anyone getting government assistance, with funds rolling over to the following month.
Clearly something is amiss.
As Vaden put it, “The taxpayers have a right to know what is being done with their money and that, when we have appropriations, we are spending more than nine billion a month.”
On the case of a $50,000 card, Vaden clarified, “[Taxpayers] especially have a right to rest assured that only those who truly need are benefitting from the program, because every dollar you give to someone who has a balance of more than $15,000 on their EBT card cannot go to someone who is truly in need.”
SNAP fraud gets worse when considering recent comments by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on “The Ingraham Angle.”
Over 500,000 people were found to have been taking SNAP benefits twice, with 5,000 dead people receiving it.
This has only been in last few days.
The uncomfortable truth is that this fraud has to go deeper.
If the Trump administration is truly concerned about saving the American people money, they’ve got to make the appropriate reductions, and that includes SNAP.
Democrats’ rhetoric around this issue boiled down to Trump and Republicans letting millions of needy people starve.
Putting aside that the recent shutdown was perpetuated by that party, recent findings fly in the face of that narrative.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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If this is shown to be accurate, they should be shot any left in the gutter.
How cruel of the Trump administration to think of cutting off benefits to dead people. They might starve to death. It's downright barbaric and uncivilized!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irtZ5qRPsbc
Remember this when you crawl out of bed at 0500 to get ready for another day of work. And again when you see the tax deductions on your pay stub.
I personally liked the way the the mafia did it. Taken to the swamps and a couple of .22’s behind the ear.
Well, I could see how a dead person could end up with 50K loaded onto their unused card. That’s a SNAFU that would not be uncommon with incompetent lazy government workers not getting paperwork processed.
But getting SNAP in 6 states is clearly fraud as is family members using the deceased persons SNAP instead of reporting the death.
FTA
“Just the News reported” Agriculture Deputy Secy Steven Vaden indicated his agency
<><>is engaged in data collection wrt SNAP in several states
<><>they want to see where tax dollars for the program are going.
<><>So far, they’ve uncovered massive fraud.
<><>one individual getting SNAP in six separate states.
<><>Another had over $50,000 tax dollars loaded onto their electronic benefits card.
<><>EBT cards work like credit cards
<><>anyone getting government assistance has tax dollars rolled over to the following month.
So much for foolproof systems.
Some people show up at the job and people think they have to work too.
Vaden: “Taxpayers have a right to know what is being done with their money”
<><>appropriations are currently more than $9 billion a month.
<><>the case of a $50,000 EBT card was clarified,
<><>only those who are truly needy are supposed to be benefiting from the program,
<><>every tax dollar into a $15,000-plus EBT card means the truly needy go hungry
<><>SNAP fraud gets even worse
<><>recent comments by Secy of Agriculture Brooke Rollins indicate
<><>500,000-plus were found to be stealing SNAP benefits over and over,
<><>plus 5,000 dead people were receiving SNAP.
<><>These frauds were found only in the last few days.
One of the O’Keefe undercover videos was at the infamous New York Roosevelt Hotel. The Roosevelt Hotel has a view of Times Square. The Hussein/Biden/Harris Regime filled it up with illegals. They had all kinds of ‘benefits’ even Uber. The O’Keefe video showed a receipt from a purchase with one of the SNAP/EBT cards. The receipt showed a balance of $14,000 in one account, $12,000 in another.
How many apparatchiks received their 10%?
What’s the big surprise here?
The lawyer/politicians write these bills to be taken advantage of and when a mere pleb figures out how to take advantage of them there’s a big outrage over it.
Whenever the government initiates a program including giving $$$ away they always seem to leave openings for thieves to get rich using it.
How much gets loaded each month on these cards. 2-3K? How about if you have a balance of 15K you don’t get a new load that month. If you have $500 you should only get up to what that monthly amount is. That way, they eather spend it or lose the next deposit. Also if they get caught selling what they bought they get zip and no more SNAP. If a merchant gets caught enabling the fraud, they get closed and indicted.
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