USDA fraud crackdown to end loophole that has the ultra rich get food stamps

The USDA is finally getting serious about cracking down on food stamp fraud all over the country, going after a loophole that’s been letting wealthy people qualify for government benefits they have no business touching.

[H/T Fox News]

Secretary Brooke Rollins dropped a post on X this week noting that one single state has 14,000 individuals on SNAP benefits who are also tooling around in Ferraris, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis. You can’t make this stuff up.

She put fraudsters on notice that the USDA is working to shut down that loophole under the Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility policy, the one that lets people qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits even when they’ve got the cash to drop hundreds of thousands on luxury cars.

Rollins told Fox Business this week that the department is "getting very, very close to being able to fix that" loophole.

SNAP, the biggest federal anti-hunger program in the United States, has been a favorite punching bag for conservatives demanding reforms for years. Rollins went on "The Ingraham Angle" Thursday night to highlight just how insane some of the waste and abuse has gotten.

"We've found 500,000 people getting more than one benefit illegally. We found 244,000 dead people. This is just the red states," Rollins said about what she's discovered going through the data from the states that have agreed to provide it since her first day on the job.

"We have arrested 895 different people in the last year for illegally using the food stamp system and, of course, now we're talking about what is happening with that money."

USDA numbers show 4.2 million fewer food stamp recipients during President Trump’s first year in office as the administration keeps swinging the axe amid endless reports of misuse from coast to coast.

"Food stamp waste and fraud is out of control," Republican congressional candidate in Orange County and CAL DOGE Director Jenny Rae Le Roux told Fox News Digital. "California alone loses nearly $14 million every day from SNAP to EBT skimming, out-of-state and country beneficiaries and eligibility lapses at a time when technology exists to close every gap, quickly."In March, Fox News Digital reported on Minnesota millionaire Rob Undersander, who somehow qualified for food stamps anyway. He’s been ringing the alarm on this nonsense ever since and has testified about it in Minnesota and before Congress.

"Reintroducing basic guardrails like an asset test is a commonsense step to restore integrity, ensure benefits go to those who truly need them and protect the long-term viability of the program," America First Policy Institute Health & Harvest Campaign Director Matt Schmid said in March.

"This isn’t about taking help away. It’s about making sure SNAP works the way it was intended to."

On top of that, the USDA put out a press release Thursday detailing Rollins’ plan to reorganize the SNAP program, including shipping food nutrition resources and staff out of Washington, D.C., to places like Indianapolis, Dallas, Denver, and Kansas City. About time some of these bureaucrats got a taste of real America.

A USDA spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday the announcement "aligns with the Food and Nutrition Administration’s mission, to nourish those in need through financially sound programs that promote health and work, as well as champion the productivity of American agriculture."

"As the Food and Nutrition Administration begins its refocusing of operations, all 16 federal nutrition programs will continue without disruption. Pertaining to Indianapolis, it has a lower cost of living, one of the top airports in the country, and has excelled at innovative program delivery."In the end, the administration says these fixes will actually help the people who really need the assistance.

"Since its inception, SNAP has helped our most vulnerable citizens afford the essential and nutritious food they need," Rollins and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a Fox News op-ed in March. "At least, that is what the program is supposed to do.

"Over time, however, SNAP has been taken advantage of, allowing many to game the system and leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without healthy, nutrient-dense food options."

Thank you for following Brain Flushings. If you really want to help support my work here, please visit the sponsors on this page, or you can Buy Me A Coffee for any amount--it really helps. You can even subscribe to Brain Flushings--it's free.

Tweet

Code Pink's Gold thinks Linda Sarsour is the greatest ally to the Jews

On "The Ingraham Angle" earlier this week, Laura Ingraham interviewed Ariel Gold, the national co-director of Code Pink.

According to Wikipedia, Code Pink is an international NGO that describes itself as a "grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities."

The organization has also gotten involved with trips to meet with drone victims in Pakistan and Yemen, bringing them to the U.S., as well as Guantanamo Bay prison in which they perform a protest yearly in front of the White House.

But most importantly for this discussion, Code Pink advocates for the Boycott, Sanction and Divest movement (BDS) against Israel. Their love of so-called Palestine and hatred of Jews, even from their secular Jewish national co-director, Ariel Gold, became apparent in the Laura Ingraham interview. It also displayed Gold's lack of knowledge of what she was espousing.

Gold said of the known anti-Semitie and supporter of Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, that he Jewish community has "no greater ally" than she.

We call that 'gaslighting' because it's exactly opposite of the facts.

Laura Ingraham asked Gold: "You say that Linda Sarsour is an ally of the Jewish people, then why would Jewish Americans like Jonathan Greenblatt--he is the head of the Anti-Defamation League--have a real problem with her statements?"

The Sharia sycophant responded by saying that Greenblatt is "disgraceful" and is "spending his time going after people who are our real allies. After the attack on Jewish cemeteries, Linda Sarsour raised over $100,000 after the Pittsburgh massacre, she raised over $200,000."

"We have no greater ally in the Jewish community in this time where anti-Semitism is dangerously on the rise than Linda Sarsour," Gold claimed.

Except that according to Jihad Watch, Sarsour gave $10,000 to the synagogue and $150,000 of that money was given to an Islamic Center. So as far as Sarsour is concerned, the joke's on the Jews.

Gold then accused the ADL of being on a "witch hunt" against Sarsour because she is a "strong, Palestinian, Muslim woman," instead of "dealing with the fact that we have white nationalism in the Senate, in the House, and in the White House."

Ingraham laughed and asked her to clarify what in the world she was talking about. "Name three white nationalist Senators," she challenged.

"What about Shaun King?" Gold said.

"Why, is he a white nationalist? In the U.S. Senate? Shaun King?"

"In the House," Gold clarified.

“He is an activist for Black Lives Matter,” Ingraham explained.

“Sorry I might be referring to…”

“That’s all right,” Ingraham responded.

Gold later explained that she was referring to Rep. Steve King (R-IA).

Gold also went on to idiotically defend Marc Lamont Hill, who was recently fired from CNN for implying Israel should be eliminated when he used the slogan “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” a quite commonly used phrase by Hamas and other terrorist organizations that call for the elimination of the state of Israel, which is why his words got a round of applause from the anti-Semitic anal sphincters in attendance at the UN where he had spoken.

“Marc Lamont Hill was clear that what he was discussing is that Palestinians deserve freedom, equality, and justice, just as Israelis do,” Gold said. Either she is stupid or just covering up for her own anti-Zionist views.

Ingraham asked, “Why is he hanging out with Farrakhan, would you hang out with Farrakhan?”

“I have no love for Farrakhan,” Gold answered.

“Okay, so why is the head of the Women’s March posing with him and why is the trio of fools at the Women’s March showing up at his Nation of Islam conferences? Why?” Ingraham asked the empty vessel made of Gold.

“Linda Sarsour shows up for Jews. No one showed up after the Pittsburgh massacre,” Gold said.

Gold took to Twitter later to call it “ridiculous” that she was the only Jew in the conversation and that Ingraham and the other guest, Michelle Malkin, “argued they, not me were the authority on protecting Jews.”

But Gold believes herself to be Jewish based on a knish she once ate long ago.


Hello fellow conservatives. Please click the "Follow" button in the margin to get the latest Brain Flushings at a computer near you. Also, if you would visit the ads on this page it helps the economy grow and it does a world of good for me.

Tweet