Posted on 11/14/2025 5:46:20 AM PST by Red Badger
On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins discussed data on food stamps and said that data from blue states is “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.”
Rollins stated, “29 states, mostly the red states, responded with their data sets, February, March, April. … 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?”
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Nobody gets the blue state data.
The next step needs to be cutting back on who is eligible for food stamps. Obama expanded eligibility far into the middle class. That needs to be cut back to just the poor. And then it needs to be made temporary for everyone other than the disabled and elderly.
Key claims distilled from the documents — what each source says loudly
Analysts clustered around three recurring claims: first, the federal government pays full SNAP benefit costs, while states contribute to administration [1] [3]. Second, recent legislative changes and budget actions enacted in 2025 introduce cost-sharing for benefits tied to state error rates and raise the state share of administrative costs from roughly 50% to 75% in coming years [2] [4]. Third, contingency funding and inter-account transfers at USDA can briefly backstop benefits during funding lapses, but are not a long-term substitute for appropriations [5] [6]. Those claims form the core narrative: federal benefits, state administrative roles, and a newly introduced conditional cost-shift that will materially affect state budgets.
(The states receive federal funds to be distributed.). IMO states need to account for all federal funds received. Ex Medicaid. They are making too much bank on federal revenue)
No cash value, No plastic money, no junk foods, sodas, beer, wine, tobacco or liquor, coffee, creamer, hot dogs, spams, potted meats, lunch meats, Starbucks lattes.
No expensive luxury items like lobster, veal, filet mignon, etc.............
We the hard-working taxpayer are all a SAP for $upporting SNAP. Thanks to Brooke Rollins and the administration’s efforts to try and eliminate some of the abuse, waste and fraud in the big government program.
“The next step needs to be cutting back on who is eligible for food stamps. Obama expanded eligibility far into the middle class. That needs to be cut back to just the poor. And then it needs to be made temporary for everyone other than the disabled and elderly.”
I make $16 too much to qualify for food stamps. Evidently I was eligible for years and didn’t know it. I assumed my income was too high.....
They need to lower it.
Make people reapply every quarter. Welfare should be a temporary hand up, not a permanent hand out. You have generational welfare dependence here. Downright entitlement to the efforts of others, demanding our resources. I say enough. Of course widows and orphans need to be taken care of, but the entire system of government dependency created by the democrats needs to be broken down and the grifters removed.
Ed was my favorite Rollins. You know the ‘walking around’ money?
Nobody gets the blue state data.
No data, no dollars.
But grok has repeatedly cited DHS and other sources it’s impossible for SNAP and medicaid to be hacked by Americans or “ undicumented immigrants.”
Too many back stops it says.
I know people who are eligible for food stamps who are middle class. They also are surprised to know that they could have qualified. In one case they would have only gotten $50 a month. But that is what Obama’s plan was - get everyone on government benefits. Even if its just a little. To get them into a dependent mindset.
Well now...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4350472/posts?page=13#13
I might be eating my hat soon: I was skeptical that it would even be tabled. /s
The state can get this data thru the mcaid supplemental programs
Why doesn’t this happen annually anyway?
And th3n batten down the hatches when the ghettopotomuses are denied.
This is actually a very good idea. There are many people who do not really need it that are getting it.
If a person is legit, they have nothing to worry about.
Cue District Judge I Wanna Be Somebody who will lay down a universal injunction so NO ONE will have to reapply for SNAP an that the administration must completely fund SNAP and add a trillion dollars to SNAP next Friday by 5pm EST.
They need to reform what can be purchased.
We should not subsidize diabetes and obesity and luxury.
Yes, it should happen annually, just like each alien in this country should have to register and re-apply annually. No free passes; you want a check, or free food, or the ability to be a guest here, you have to prove that you are qualified to receive that benefit.
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