Posted on 08/04/2025 9:08:02 AM PDT by thegagline
*** A coalition of 20 attorneys general, led by New York AG Letitia James and California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the lawsuit Monday, arguing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand that states turn over personal information about SNAP recipients dating back five years, violates privacy laws.
SNAP is a federally-funded, state-administered program that provides billions of dollars in food benefits to tens of millions of low-income individuals and families in the United States.
The new USDA demands, released last week, require states to provide a list of individuals who have applied or are currently receiving SNAP benefits, in addition to other information such as a list of their immigration statuses in the U.S., and information including their marital statuses, their residential and mailing addresses, and education and employment history, among other things.
The USDA has threatened to withhold administrative funding from states that don’t comply.
On April 24, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins issued a guidance to all State agencies directing them “to enhance identity and immigration verification practices when determining eligibility for the program. *** “By law, only United States citizens and certain lawfully present aliens may receive SNAP benefits. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ***established that ‘aliens within the Nation’s borders not depend on public resources to meet their needs.’ SNAP is not and has never been available to illegal aliens,” Walk wrote.
Specifically, the USDA asked states “to cross-check Social Security numbers with a death master file and to use the free Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system provided by the Department of Homeland Security” to verify immigration status.
An estimated 1.5 million noncitizens collected a total of $4.2 billion in Food Stamp benefit payments in fiscal year 2022, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data.
Under a $53 million pilot program in New York City during the Biden administration, “asylum seekers” were reportedly given $1,400 in Snap Benefits a month.
In FY 2023, a “staggering” $10.5 billion in improper SNAP payments were made,” the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in February 2025. That amounts to about 12 percent of total SNAP payments that year. The Democrat AGs argue in their lawsuit that the USDA’s latest directive violates federal privacy laws and exceeds the agency’s authority.
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As an aside, how many employers have been arrested and incarcerated for hiring illegals?(See 8 U.S.C. § 1324a)
Once you have applied for, and been examined, and been approved for SNAP, there is no information left to conceal, and it is federal money you are getting.
“””Under a $53 million pilot program in New York City during the Biden administration, “asylum seekers” were reportedly given $1,400 in Snap Benefits a month. “”””
So.....more than most seniors get on Social Security.
I now identify as an asylum seeker. SHOW ME DA MONEY!!!!
No it is not federal money they are getting, the feds have no money except what theyTAKE FROM THE CITIZENS. They are getting your money and mine.
NC and PA did not join the lawsuit despite having Democratic Governor and AG.
Wow ... what a winning message these idiots (continue to) have.
NOT.
($1,400 in Snap Benefits a month)
Dang wish da gubmint give me $1,400 in SNAP benefits every month for the last 20 years or so
I could feed dozens and dozens of people
But they won’t - because I’m a natural-born American citizen
Uh, OK, thanks for the reminder that governments only have taxed money.
Their SNAP benefit should be “You’re here illegaly? SNAP! you’re gone.”
SNAP is like a gateway drug for getting more benefits. If you are on SNAP you get a free ‘lifeline’ cell phone, free or reduced high-speed internet (so kids don’t have to go to McDonalds to do homework), in some states Medicaid, and the list goes on.
The idea of being asked to work for these benefits is akin to slavery. /s
“But they won’t - because I’m a natural-born American citizen”
Sadly, the Cowbird Class takes precedence in America now.
I don’t get your point
ID s get faked to get SNAP
I thought to myself, between the Federal, State, and local governments, they are taking nearly 50% of my income. That is slavery. ( not an original thought, but a valid one nonetheless)
“””Under a $53 million pilot program in New York City during the Biden administration, “asylum seekers” were reportedly given $1,400 in Snap Benefits a month. “”””So.....more than most seniors get on Social Security.
It's certainly more than my wife's Social Security.
“No it is not federal money they are getting, the feds have no money except what theyTAKE FROM THE CITIZENS. They are getting your money and mine.”
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Correct.
The government cannot produce. It can only consume.
States which supply the requested information get funded. Those which don’t can self fund.
My point is that the state has already taken all of your pertinent personal information, checked it out, and approved you for an income qualified state welfare program, and they require you to requalify periodically, so there is nothing about you that is still private in that area to the state government, which means that your privacy is already completely shot, so why pretend you are protecting some deep personal privacy of state citizens from the feds, who pay for the program and who are trying to clear up fraud in their program?
A fake identify doesn’t change any of that, except that the criminal gets caught.
Yep. I saw that when the economy
collapsed in 2008 and I was pushed
aside
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHT UP
"Coalition of Dem AGs Sue Trump Administration Over Effort to Weed Noncitizens Off of SNAP Program [??? emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Constitutionally undefined federal SNAP shouldn't exist imo, SNAP just another example of corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress's ongoing abuse of its 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes) imo.
More specifically, not only did Justice Joseph Story indicate that poor laws are a state power issue (10th Amendment), but the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Constitution's drafters had left the care of the people to the states, not the federal government.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws [all emphases added], or the road laws of the states." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
What's going on with the now unconstitutionally big federal government is this imo. Post-17th Amendment ratification (popular voting for federal senators) crook lawmakers eventually discovered that they could promise voters who are evidently not being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers every unconstitutional federal spending program under the sun to get themselves elected, voters ultimately taking the bait an electing them.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Then once in office, deep state lawmakers fulfill their promises for unconstitutional federal spending programs that they had made on the campaign trail, effectively repealing all limits on the fed's constitutionally limited powers to tax and spend by doing so.
The bottom line is this. The 16th Amendment has become the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime, front-ended by deep state Congress, and desperately needs to be repealed.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
In fact, PDJT47's red tsunami of supporters, proven by the record breaking results of 2024 elections, need to primary all state and federal candidates for public office in 2026 midterm elections who refuse to publicly promise to support a referendum in January 2027 to propose a new amendment to the Constitution to the states to repeal 16A.
The 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators, needs to disappear too.
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spend is stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, healthcare, including taking care of the poor, and education on the short list of priorities.
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