Stealing from the taxpayer is unfortunately not a phenomenon limited to blue states.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins made an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” to speak about the issue, revealing that in red states, hundreds of thousands of people are cheating the system.
“Fraud and abuse in the SNAP program, the food stamp program, will end. And please be our partner in this,” Rollins told Laura Ingraham.
Democrat-run states were unwilling to cooperate, but the Republican states were willing: “29 states responded. All but two were of course red states, Republican governors, and they said yes, we are in.”
“And within that data dump, billions of pieces of data that we’re now sharing with the states, we found 500,000 people getting more than one benefit illegally. We found 244,000 dead people,” she told the host.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sec. Brooke Rollins confirms that in just the RED states, they found 500,000 people getting more than one federal welfare benefit ILLEGALLY…
Blue states are HIDING their data.
ARRESTS are now being made to root out the fraud.…pic.twitter.com/trZ7CeWu27
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh)May 1, 2026
“This is just the red states,” she continued. “We have now arrested 895 different people in the last year for illegally using the food stamp system.”
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