Agriculture Secretary Brooke Gollins joins ‘Morning with Maria’ to discuss meat prices, soybean deals full of soybeans and the complex crackdown on Washington’s snap fraud.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins The Trump administration said Monday it will require all participants in the massive national aid program to reclaim benefits in an effort to prevent fraud.
Recipients of the Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which supports more than 40 million Americans, will have to demonstrate that their households meet eligibility requirements to continue receiving benefits.
Rollins said Snap, which was intended to be a way of life for low-income families, was among the top priorities for the review, raising concerns about eligibility and oversight.
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“Business as usual is over. The situation is no more,” said Whillins during an interview on “Morning with Maria.”
Last year, Snap was worth $99.8 billion, with monthly profits of up to $187 per shareholder, according to Federal statistics. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Rollins said he is ordering states to share information on receivers shortly after taking office in February, describing the system as “a sham.
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He added that so far only 29 states, mostly Republican-led, have followed the request. Rollins says even that limited data already reveals massive abuse, with 186,000 dead people receiving benefits and 500,000 people receiving Snap benefits on one level.
Data from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that more than 226,000 fraudulent benefit claims and more than 691,000 transactions were detected.
Fraudulent transactions refer to purchases that Snap Home does not authorize, often resulting from card skimming, card overloading or other forms of electronic theft.
Stolen benefits cost the government more than $102 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, from $69.4 million in the previous quarter and $31.9 million during the same period a year earlier.
In a previous interview earlier this month with “FOX & Friends on the weekend,Rollins said investigators have found “thousands and thousands of illegal uses of the electronic benefits card (EBT). “
He added that so far, the Trump administration has removed about 700,000 people from SNAP and arrested 118 people.
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In addition, the USDA says that about 41.7 million Americans, or 1 in 8 people, rely on SNAP benefits each month. The highest share of beneficiaries live in New Mexico, Washington, DC and Louisiana, followed by Oregon, according to USDA data.
Under the previous president Joe BidenFederal spending on Snap reached record highs, $128 billion in 2021 and $127 billion in 2022, as the pandemic-era aid extended food aid.
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Last year, Snap was worth $99.8 billion, with monthly profits of up to $187 per shareholder, according to Federal statistics.
Rollins said government shutdown Snap to the “average everyday eye” Who is now saying “This is wrong.”
“There are vulnerable families in America who need this program and are not getting it because of fraud and abuse that will work now that we will work to fix it.”
