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A group of Democratic states is suing the Department of Agriculture and its secretary, Brooke Rollins, for failing to use emergency funds to help alleviate the lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits caused by the government shutdown.Filed in a Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday, the lawsuit alleges the Trump administration illegally suspended SNAP benefits, harming more than 42 million Americans who rely on the federal food program. SNAP funding is set to run out on Nov. 1 unless the shutdown ends by then.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3866530/blue-states-sue-usda-emergency-funds-snap-funding-lapse/
The real questions here:"Why are we the federal government feeding 42,000,000 Americans?" "How many of those actually are Americans?"
Too much fraud so let the states handle welfare.
A little experiment: Maintain SNAP pause for 30 days to see how drastically foreign shipments dropBy Olivia MurrayRecall a 2013 exposé from the New York Post that revealed a major scam in the food stamps world: Caribbean migrants, enrolled in SNAP, were buying up non-perishable items like cereal and baby formula, packaging it all up into those 55-gallon blue barrel drums, and shipping it back to their home nations, all to be sold on the black market for a quick buck at the American taxpayer’s expense.Here’s a brief rundown:Food-stamp fraud in New York has turned into foreign aid — to black-market profiteers in the Dominican Republic.‘It’s a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,’ a seller named Maria-Teresa said Friday.The 47-year-old Bronx native told The Post she scalps barrels of Frosted Flakes and baby formula bought with welfare money in the United States.For reference, the Dominican Republic is a very food-insecure nation: according to data from the Integrated Food Insecurity Phase Classification (IPC) published earlier this year, 9% of the population is at a “crisis” level of food insecurity (963,000 people), while another 18% is in the “stressed” demographic (1.926 million). Furthermore, the World Food Programme states that 33% of the nation “lacks access to a nutritious diet.”But, these blue barrels aren’t the full scope: Maria-Teresa has a home in the DR, and she also sells from there, undercutting the local stores, noting that “a lot of people are doing” the same thing. Then, there’s this:And the food-stamp fraud doesn’t stop there. She [Maria-Teresa] said her sister has Bronx grocers ring up bogus $250 transactions with her EBT card.In exchange, the stores hand her $200 cash and pocket the rest. No goods are exchanged. Instead, Maria-Teresa’s sister sends the money to Santiago — when she’s not spending it on liquor or other nonfood items. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/a_little_experiment_maintain_snap_pause_for_30_days_to_see_how_drastically_foreign_shipments_drop.html
