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  • Kash Patel Arrests 70 Blue State Fraudsters Who Stole $250 Million in Aid “From Hungry Kids” [MN]

    07/23/2025 9:55:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 82 replies
    American Tribune ^ | July 23, 2025 | Will Tanner
    In some massive news for those wanting to see fraudsters held accountable for their awful crimes against the public, the Department of Justice and FBI announced that it had arrested nearly 6 dozen fraudsters in the deep blue state of Minnesota over a scheme in which they stole $250 million from a program meant to feed hungry children. As background, the $250 million fraud scheme targeted a children’s nutrition program that was created during the COVID-19 pandemic and called “Feeding our Future.” It was meant to reimburse the costs of feeding children during the pandemic, so as to keep kids...
  • Farm security is national security: USDA unveils biggest crackdown in decades

    07/11/2025 7:22:49 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 13 replies
    American Thinker ^ | July 11, 2025 | Wendi Strauch Mahoney
    “Farm security is national security,” declared U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins, as she unveiled a sweeping National Farm Security Action Plan at a press conference on July 8, 2025. Flanked by Trump adviser Peter Navarro, several governors, and key Cabinet officials, Rollins rolled out the most aggressive federal effort in decades to curb foreign ownership of U.S. farmland and shield the agricultural sector from national-security threats, particularly those posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).The USDA’s announcement follows a February 2025 directive from President Trump, who ordered the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...
  • Ag secretary says able-bodied Medicaid recipients should replace immigrant farm workforce

    07/09/2025 12:03:37 PM PDT · by DFG · 34 replies
    Politico ^ | 07/08/2025 | Marcia Brown
    Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said millions of adult Medicaid participants who will face stricter work requirements under the GOP megabill should replace foreign farm workers deported under the Trump administration’s immigration policies. “There will be no amnesty,” Rollins said Tuesday during an event at USDA headquarters highlighting the administration’s efforts to strengthen farm and national security policy. “The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce towards automation and 100 percent American participation.” “With 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly,” she added, referencing Medicaid participants...
  • Brooke Rollins Announces USDA National Farm Security Action Plan to ‘Promote Agricultural Prosperity’ and ‘Strengthen’ U.S. Food Supply

    07/08/2025 9:02:17 AM PDT · by DFG · 2 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/08/2025 | Elizabeth Weibel
    Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is rolling out the National Farm Security Action Plan, which will “promote agricultural prosperity” and “defend the foundations of agriculture” and strengthen the U.S. domestic food supply. During a virtual pen & pad event on Monday evening, ahead of a press conference on Tuesday, Rollins explained that the plan includes “seven key action items.” One of the key action items focused on “securing and protecting the American farmland,” while another key point focused on “rooting out fraud, abuse, and foreign adversaries” that were posing a threat...
  • Exclusive: USDA develops potential plan to vaccinate poultry for bird flu

    06/23/2025 6:31:04 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 55 replies
    Reuters ^ | 06 20 2025
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time that includes evaluating how it would affect exports, the agency told Reuters this week. The actions advance the government's assessment of a vaccine after the USDA received proposals on usage from associations representing egg and turkey producers whose farms have been devastated by the virus. Nearly 175 million chickens, turkeys and other birds have been culled in attempts to contain outbreaks since 2022 in the nation's worst animal-health emergency. Losses of egg-laying chickens drove egg prices to records this year,...
  • Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers

    06/16/2025 9:12:22 AM PDT · by thegagline · 26 replies
    DNYUZ ^ | 06/16/2025 | Staff
    A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin on behalf of a white dairy farmer, Adam Faust. *** The new lawsuit alleges the government has continued to implement diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were instituted under former President Joe Biden. *** . “After being ignored by a federal agency that’s meant to support agriculture, I hope my...
  • USDA Employee And Five Others Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Food Stamp Fraud And Bribery Scheme

    05/29/2025 10:17:06 AM PDT · by CFW · 19 replies
    Justice.gov ^ | 5/29/25 | staff
    Perry Carbone, Attorney for the United States, Acting under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515; Charmeka Parker, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (“USDA-OIG”); and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(“FBI”), announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging six individuals in connection with a sprawling fraud and bribery scheme that generated over $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”)—colloquially known as food stamps. This is one of the largest food...
  • Speaker Johnson: ‘States are not properly administering’ SNAP payments

    05/25/2025 11:12:34 PM PDT · by RandFan · 24 replies
    The Hill ^ | 05/25/25 4:37 PM ET | by Elizabeth Crisp
    House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the House GOP’s proposed changes to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Sunday, arguing that states will better administer food stamp benefits if they have to shoulder more of the costs. “The states are not properly administering this because they don’t have enough skin in the game,” Johnson told CBS’s Margaret Brennan in an interview on “Face the Nation.” The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the GOP-controlled House narrowly passed early Thursday morning after an overnight session, calls for the federal share of SNAP costs to drop from the current 100...
  • USDA to Issue $1.3 Billion to Specialty Crop Producers Through Second Marketing Assistance Program Payment ($2.2 Billion in total)

    05/01/2025 6:56:09 PM PDT · by Drago · 10 replies
    USA USDA ^ | 04/29/2025 | USDA Press
    (College Station, T.X., April 29, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a second round of payments coming this week for specialty crop producers through the Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program, providing up to $1.3 billion in additional program assistance. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) already delivered just under $900 million in first round payments to eligible producers.
  • USDA Brooke Rollins Ensures Illegal Aliens Do Not Receive Federal Benefits (Food Stamps)

    04/26/2025 5:50:33 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 20 replies
    Department of Agriculture ^ | April 24, 2025 | USDA
    (Washington, D.C., April 24, 2025) – Today, at the direction of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services John Walk issued guidance to all State agencies directing them to enhance identity and immigration verification practices when determining eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This guidance is one of many steps toward fulfilling President Trump’s Executive Order 14218, which directs USDA and other federal agencies to “enhance eligibility verification systems, to the maximum extent possible, to ensure that taxpayer funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien.” “President Trump has made...
  • USDA threatens to halt Mexican beef imports over flesh-eating fly crisis

    04/26/2025 4:08:31 PM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/26/25 | Jasmine Baehr, Bill Melugin
    In a dramatic move to protect America’s cattle industry, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has warned Mexico that the U.S. will halt imports of live animals — including cattle and bison — if Mexico doesn’t step up efforts to combat a dangerous pest creeping northward. In a letter sent Saturday and obtained by Fox News, Secretary Rollins put the Mexican government on notice to act immediately to fight the spread of the New World screwworm or face serious economic consequences on the border. The USDA has set a firm deadline of April 30 for Mexico to address the growing crisis, or...
  • Massie: People on food stamps (EBT) shouldn't be allowed to buy Coke or Pepsi

    03/25/2025 2:16:09 PM PDT · by RandFan · 81 replies
    X ^ | March 25 | Rep. Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie People should not be allowed to use food stamps (EBT) to purchase sugary drinks like Coke and Pepsi. Libertarian arguments about choice do not apply here. The money being used for EBT was extracted from taxpayers who have no choice in whether to give up their money.
  • She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

    03/22/2025 5:51:14 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 93 replies
    NBC News | Comcast ^ | March 22, 2025 | By Shannon Pettypiece (D-NBC)
    After Donald Trump won the presidency again, Rebecca Carlson was counting on this being the year things turned around for her 1,300-acre farm in northern Michigan. The farm has been in her family for generations but has struggled over the past several years amid the rising cost of fuel, fertilizer and other operating expenses. Then, last year, bad weather wiped out much of her crop. But the return of Trump, she thought, would help reverse things. Her farm had been awarded a grant worth $400,000 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help pay for the costs associated with hiring...
  • Food Price Outlook, 2025

    03/18/2025 3:45:34 PM PDT · by marktwain · 6 replies
    USDA.gov ^ | USDA
    This page summarizes the February 2025 Food Price Outlook forecasts, which incorporate the January 2025 Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index numbers. See the Overview page for Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index datasets that include recent price changes and forecasts of price changes for all categories discussed in this summary. Consumer Price Index for Food (not seasonally adjusted) The all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of economy-wide inflation, increased 0.7 percent from December 2024 to January 2025 and was up 3.0 percent from January 2024. The CPI for all food increased 0.6 percent from December 2024...
  • USDA Now Asking People to Register Their Vegetable Gardens

    03/18/2025 4:35:47 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 116 replies
    Vegetable gardening has become an increasingly popular trend in recent years, with individuals and communities alike embracing the benefits of growing their own fresh produce. Recognizing the significance of this movement, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now encouraging people to register their vegetable gardens. This new initiative aims to better understand and support the efforts of home gardeners, while also contributing to a more sustainable local food system. The decision by the USDA to ask people to register their vegetable gardens stems from a deep appreciation for the positive impact that these gardens can have on both individuals...
  • American Heart Association fights to keep soda on food stamps—guess who funds them?

    03/15/2025 2:37:53 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 46 replies
    Citizen Watch Report ^ | 13/3/25 | Alex
    The American Heart Association is throwing its weight behind soda and junk food—literally. Instead of supporting legislation that would prevent food stamps from being used on sugary drinks and processed snacks, the AHA is fighting it. Why? Because it takes money from the very companies selling these products. Pepsi, Kellogg’s, and other big food corporations pump cash into the AHA, and in return, the organization defends policies that keep their products moving off the shelves, even at the expense of public health. The proposed legislation is simple. It aims to stop Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits—taxpayer-funded assistance—from being used...
  • USDA halts millions in funding for University of Maine System

    03/12/2025 6:00:43 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 11 replies
    pressherald.com ^ | March 10, 2025 | Kay Neufeld
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has temporarily halted spending to all of the programs it funds at University of Maine System schools, a system spokesperson announced Tuesday morning. The move temporarily pauses the system's agricultural research and programs weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to cut funding for Maine because it allows transgender athletes to compete in sports. The university system has $56.1 million in active USDA grants, most of which support the flagship campus in Orono and agriculture programs and research, according to spokesperson Samantha Warren.
  • Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing

    03/07/2025 5:56:50 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 151 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 7, 2025 | BY MATT SEDENSKY
    NEW YORK (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing. The country’s bitterly tribal politics are spilling into text chains, social media posts and heated conversations as Americans absorb the reality of the government’s cost-cutting measures. Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste. “I’ve been treated as a public enemy by the government and now it’s bleeding into my own family,” says...
  • BIG WIN! @DOGE, @DOGE_USDA & @Interior worked together to cancel a wasteful $10M/year contract for an outsourced research project on the eating habits of SNAP recipients.

    03/04/2025 3:22:26 PM PST · by hardspunned · 28 replies
    Dept. of Agriculture ^ | 3/4/25 | Brooke Rollins
    $17M has been spent in the last 17 months for *2 consultants. No actual field research on eating habits was conducted. 👀
  • Exclusive — Secretary Rollins: USDA Exploring ‘Federal Solution’ to Stopping China from Purchasing U.S. Farmland

    02/18/2025 11:37:55 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 12 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 18 Feb 2025 | Matthew Boyle
    U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration is exploring ways for the federal government to stop China from purchasing American farmland. Rollins, in her first non-trade publication exclusive print interview, said that “no doubt” people are concerned about this and rightly want American farmland to be owned by Americans, not foreigners, especially those loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). […] Rollins told Breitbart News that through her organization — which she led until her nomination as USDA Secretary — America First Policy Institute, she has supported state-level...