WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will move to withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless they provide information on those receiving the assistance.
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday that the action is in the works because those states are refusing to provide information the department requested such as the names and immigration status of the aid recipients.
She said the cooperation is necessary in order to root out fraud in the program. Democratic states have sued to block the requirement.
About 1 in 8 Americans use the program to help buy groceries.
Great. Once again Trump is doing the dirty work that should have been done decades ago.
Good. FAFO. You had one job to do, Democrat states. Provide data on who’s getting food stamps and you decided to ignore it. Because you’re going to be exposed for all the fraud going on and all the illegals stealing from taxpayers. Democrats= no transparency and no accountability. But there’s a new sheriff in town now. Haha.
Get the courts ready lawsuits against the administration
Article title is a bit off should have started with cutting SNAP funding for those states that have refused to submit data as to whom in their state is receiving them, and they just happen to be Democrat lead states!
Why wasn’t this done the last 30 years. Hair dos and ipads come before buying food. I fully agree in this vetting.
1) If this was about fraud, the focus wouldn’t be on Democratic states only (please do not think that there’s no fraud in Republican states!)
2) The issue, and it’s gone to the courts, is that the states administer the program but don’t share large swathes of personnel data with the Federal government. There are actually privacy issues: as a country, we generally were against the federal government accumulating private data without systems to secure it.
Now, in the name of “illegal aliens,” the Feds are scooping-up large tranches of personal data from scores of databases with little/no guardrails on how it will be used.
Setting terrible precedents
Satmar are in trouble
About 1 in 8 Americans use the program to help buy groceries. And that my friend causes prices to rise. It pent up demand when it’s free. So now 7 in 8 pay more. Source, during the shut down when food stamps were withheld, grocery store owners lowered prices bec of lower demand. Google it
wont effect the frum
“sued”? that sounds ridiculous. those states also have a vested interest in reducing fraud.