Posted on 11/03/2025 12:38:28 PM PST by Red Badger
In her first major move as Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins is wasting no time draining the swamp inside the nation’s food assistance system.
In a fiery post on X, Rollins revealed that her department has already uncovered massive fraud within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and that 21 Democrat-led states are actively blocking efforts to expose it.
“On my first day @USDA, we told every state to send us their SNAP data so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families. 29 states stepped up. 21 blue states refused, and two SUED US FOR ASKING! And guess what? In just the states that cooperated, we’ve already uncovered massive fraud,” Rollins wrote.
“The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens. They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census. There’s a new sheriff in town. @POTUS will not tolerate waste, fraud, or abuse while hardworking Americans go hungry.”
Rollins appeared on Fox News to further detail what her team discovered after just weeks of investigation.
On February 13th, her first day at USDA, Rollins sent letters to all 50 governors demanding data transparency to ensure no illegal aliens were receiving taxpayer-funded benefits.
Under the Biden regime, according to Rollins, SNAP spending ballooned by nearly 40%, with millions of new recipients added during a time of record illegal immigration and inflation.
Rollins accused the Biden White House of ‘buying votes’ through welfare expansion, suggesting that Democrats have turned federal aid into a political weapon.
Rollins said her team has reviewed $100 billion in SNAP spending and already identified widespread abuse and criminal activity.
Sec. Brooke Rollins: “Today, day one at USDA, February 13th, we sent letters to every governor in America, being very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP — zero, zero, 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 DOJ 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. Since we have asked for that data, 29 states have complied — of course, almost all the red states, and a couple of blue states too.
But in that data — and I haven’t talked about this yet publicly — we have found, after studying about $100 billion in spending, thousands and thousands of illegal uses of the EBT card. We have been moving people off of SNAP. We’ve got almost 700,000 people, I think, that 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 5,000 people who are dead and still getting benefits.
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 — so we can serve the American taxpayer.”
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK...............
Those states just need a little encouragement, is all.
Cheats, liars, and thieves. One and all.
There’s a country song in there somewhere.............
The people in the states that refused and the states who sued you should be arrested and held during the investigation and trials.
That’s the way it SHOULD go down. But it won’t.
so then they’re all cut off until they provide the data, right Rollins?
i want to hear the giant sucking sound in reverse.
Waiting for a Bammy/Bidet judge to order all investigations stop.
I knew that food stamp fraud was out of control, but until recent reporting in regards to the “shut-down”, I didn’t realize how bad it had become. Biden almost tripled the number of people on SNAP benefits. And, the majority of the people who came across the border, came just to get on the government dole. Free housing, free food, free education, free medical. Meanwhile, tax payers tighten their belts in order to make it month to month. I’m mad!
No illegal alien should be on SNAP or any tax-payer assistance. All legal immigrants should have to prove they can support themselves and not rely on tax payer benefits before they are allowed to immigrate.
Stale news from Feb 13. What’s happened since?
Simple solution: If you can’t send audit reports on spending the funds, the funds are cut off until you do. Quit pussyfooting around.
what are they worried about?.. its well-known no one is getting indicted for stealing taxpayers money...
I don’t see a problem: Cancel all accounts which fail to reapply within 30 days.
If there is a LAW preventing her from ordering a 30-day window to reapply for WELFARE THAT FEEDS, and thereby cancelling all accounts which fail to reapply...
...then we have much bigger problems.
The Feds payout for EBT bennies. The state merely administer these payouts. So California loves its illegal aliens by approving them for EBT benefits, that come at the Fed Guv’s expense.
**** Lets say you get $400 EBT each month. The Feds paid you $400, while states spent about 2% of $400 administering it.
Like the tents set up over the past few years, Sign up for an Obama Phone. No oversight. Yes, I walked up and asked for some information, I was told to go away, I did not qualify, they never told me why ???
Cut benefits to all States not reporting by the percentage of fraud detected in those States that did.
Republicans are doing nothing. Exposing is not enough.
Now the Democrats are hiding their welfare abuse. Why does anyone vote for these crooks?
Some people it’s generational, “My grandfather was a Democrat, etc”
They don’t know any different. But apparently those types are dying off fairly quickly.
The younger generations are more educated and at least a good portion of them can think objectively.................
How about if there was a requirement to show proof of citizenship to be qualified.
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