With the government shutdown now in its second month, the Trump administration is using contingency funds set aside for natural disasters to pay about 50% of the food stamp benefits. The program has exploded by an astonishing 40% since the Biden Administration took office in 2021.

One out of eight families in America now use taxpayer handouts to put food on the table.  Not in Africa or India – in the richest country in the world!

One reason: blue states have ignored work requirements. The purple areas have essentially no work requirements.

Not only is the Left demanding everyone who’s on the program stay on it, they are insisting that there be no citizenship checks for beneficiaries. When the Agriculture Department asked the states for data to ensure illegal immigrants weren’t on the program, 21 blue states refused. But even from just the 29 cooperating states, USDA found massive fraud. One person was receiving food stamps from SIX different states.

These 21 states are no doubt stonewalling because their food stamp fraud is embarrassingly large. In the states that have reported data, we learn that many of the  households receiving benefits are illegal immigrants.

Liberals have even encouraged people to go on food stamps to “stimulate the local economy.”

Why in the world do we have a program that is 100% funded by the federal government but 100% administered by the states, some of whom won’t even tell the federal government who is receiving benefits?