Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered
Politics
Fred Onyango

4.3 million Americans vanished from food stamp rolls. Some say the explanation is simpler than the White House claims

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.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.