The Donald Trump administration has just announced that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has seen a 4.3 million drop in participants. While Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has suggested that it’s because the economy is doing better and some people just don’t need food stamps anymore, some have already started pushing back on this notion.
According to ABC7, Secretary Rollins said that a lot of people who were on the program shouldn’t have been receiving SNAP benefits in the first place. The Trump administration has recently been running a “war on fraud” in a bid to balance the budget. And this was Rollins doing her bit in championing the administration because, according to her, a lot of the people on SNAP benefits were also fraudulent.