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Trump Administration to Withhold SNAP Funds From Democrat States

December 3, 2025 1:52 pmDecember 3, 2025 1:52 pm

The Biden administration increased SNAP funding 40% in 2024 in an effort to buy the election, according to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “NO DATA, NO MONEY — it’s that simple. If a state won’t share data on criminal use of...

Co-Dependent Gov. Newsom: California Has 5.5 Million Food Stamp Recipients

November 4, 2025 2:55 amNovember 4, 2025 9:57 pm

Remember the Welfare to Work program, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996? Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich led the Republican-controlled Congress and passed two major bills to reform the welfare system. Those bills were initially vetoed...

Nevada AG Joins Multi-State Lawsuit to Stop Suspension of SNAP Benefits

October 28, 2025 1:32 pmOctober 28, 2025 3:27 pm

Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford (NV) has joined California, Arizona and over 20 other states in a lawsuit to stop the suspension of SNAP benefits during the government shutdown. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that 42 million Americans...

AG Bonta, 20 Other State AGs Sue USDA Over New SNAP Compliance Order

July 28, 2025 4:43 pmJuly 28, 2025 4:43 pm

Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday that the state of California, along with 20 other state Attorneys General, will sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture over a compliance order to give all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) records, including what...

Welfare Fraud Decriminalization Bill Passes Senate Committee

April 29, 2025 8:25 pmApril 29, 2025 8:25 pm

A bill that would decriminalize criminal penalties for attempted welfare fraud for cases under $950 and eliminate criminal penalties for overpayments from administrative errors or infractions continued to move up in the Senate this month, with an Appropriations Committee vote...

Benefit Fraud Problems and Solutions

November 7, 2024 11:48 amNovember 7, 2024 11:48 am

Because that’s where the money is. That was famed bank robber Willie Sutton’s very possibly apocryphal response when asked why he robbed banks. Now the money is in government benefit programs and that’s why they are being defrauded at record...

It’s a SNAP – And it Can Be Hacked A Number of Ways

October 7, 2024 2:45 pmOctober 7, 2024 2:45 pm

The program was known for years as food stamps. It was meant to provide assistance to people in need, making sure they had at least enough to eat and it literally distributed books of stamps to be used at grocery...