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Many illegal aliens who are not eligible for SNAP benefits were nonetheless saved from scrambling for food Friday when a judge forced funding for the program to continue in November.
Both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) have been under threat as the budget impasse in Congress continues. SNAP was slated for suspension on Nov. 1 when the federal SNAP funding mechanism ran out. An appropriation bill must be passed to fund it.
But Judge Indira Talwani has ordered the USDA to use contingency funds to pay for SNAP at least partially, and to find more funds to fully fund it. “And while these contingency funds reportedly are insufficient to cover the entire cost of SNAP for November, [the USDA] also may supplement the Contingency Funds by authorizing a transfer of additional funds,” Indira wrote Friday.
A better solution would be to end the government shutdown and pass an appropriation bill to fund the government (a solution Democrats are loath to adopt). But while government workers miss paychecks and federal services are shut down, taxpayers are still feeding many illegal aliens.
Data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that many households led by illegal aliens who are not personally eligible for SNAP would be hit if a SNAP free food freeze is ever allowed to happen. In many cases they have been receiving SNAP for their children, born in the U.S. after the mother illegally entered or overstayed in the U.S.
Yes, the SNAP program is so generous that it feeds people living in a home who are not eligible for the program. --->READ MORE HERE
Around the time two federal judges on Friday were ordering the Trump administration to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for millions of Americans despite a government shutdown, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was calling SNAP "bloated" and "corrupt."
Rollins joined House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at the Capitol for a media briefing on the federal government shutdown and focused on the Trump administration's efforts to save SNAP from waste and abuse.
Rollins said the shutdown is creating more attention on the program, "that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated, so broken, so dysfunctional, so corrupt that it is astonishing when you dig in."
She said a big focus of the administration has been removing illegal aliens from being recipients of the benefit. She said her department informed all 50 states with an order, "saying, no more illegal aliens on SNAP, period, full stop. So that's already a rule of this administration. We're working to enforce it every single day."
But Rollins said the amount of waste being uncovered is frightful. "We've had dozens of arrests, people going to jail, fraudulent activity of $50 million here," she said. "One guy's registered for SNAP in six different states. I mean, it's one thing after another."
And looking for full accountability, she said all states were asked to submit data on recipients. All Republican-led states complied, along with two run by Democrats. The rest, she said, sued to prevent the data from being disclosed.
"So the problem is you have an extremely corrupt program," said Rollins.
She added that the work to prevent waste and abuse won't stop, "to take that program back to its original intent of helping those who are truly needy in our communities, but not to have a massive welfare benefit where so many people are taking advantage of it that shouldn't be." --->READ MORE HERE
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