Brooke Rollins, the bulldog at the helm of the USDA, is done playing nice with the welfare wasteland that’s SNAP. She’s blasting the program for hemorrhaging billions in taxpayer dollars to deadbeats, double-dippers, and outright crooks, and she’s got the numbers to back it up. This isn’t some feel-good handout—it’s a slush fund for fraudsters that’s exploded under the last administration, and Rollins is swinging the axe to chop it down. With revelations pouring out in December 2025, the scam is exposed: ghost recipients, multi-state moochers, and a system so leaky it’s drowning hardworking Americans. But fear not, patriots—there’s a playbook to fix this mess and put the boot to the cheats.
The Fraud Flood: Dead People Dining on Your Dime
SNAP’s turned into a zombie apocalypse for your wallet. Data from 29 complying states in December 2025 uncovered 186,000 dead souls still cashing in on benefits, as if the grave came with an EBT card. That’s right—corpses collecting checks while living families scrape by. And it gets worse: 500,000 people double-dipping under the same name, pocketing twice the loot without breaking a sweat. Some geniuses even raked it in across six states, turning federal aid into a cross-country con game.
The program’s ballooned to over $100 billion a year, up 40 percent since 2021, and the fraud’s eating a chunk that’s downright criminal. Estimates peg improper payments at 11.7 percent, translating to $10.5 billion vanishing into thin air annually. But whistleblowers and audits suggest it’s closer to $12 billion when you factor in skimming, trafficking, and stolen cards that hit $102 million just in the first quarter of fiscal 2025. States replaced over $320 million in pilfered benefits from late 2022 to the end of 2024, and that’s the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile, 80 percent of able-bodied adults on SNAP aren’t lifting a finger for work, leeching off the system while the rest of us grind.
Rollins dropped these bombshells in cabinet meetings and press hits throughout early December 2025, calling the fraud rampant and vowing no more blind eyes. Over 800,000 ineligible recipients have been booted since the purge kicked off, with revelations showing the rot runs deep in blue havens where oversight’s a joke.
We’re calling out what too many politicians and advocates are afraid to say out loud: SNAP fraud is real, it’s pervasive, and hardworking Americans are the ones stuck paying for it!
And we have the receipts… 📈🧾
While millions play by the rules, many have learned to game the… pic.twitter.com/1qxB0g6wDE
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) November 20, 2025
Blue State Blockade: Hiding the Heist Behind Privacy Pretexts
Twenty-one states, all Democrat strongholds like California, New York, and Minnesota, are digging in their heels, refusing to cough up recipient data like Social Security numbers and immigration status back to 2020. They whine about privacy violations and fear of deportation tie-ins, but let’s call it what it is: a cover-up for their fraud fiefdoms. These holdouts sued to block the data dump, scoring temporary court wins, but the clock’s ticking. Rollins fired back on December 2, 2025, announcing funding freezes starting the week of December 15—no data, no dough.
This standoff’s no accident. Blue states ballooned SNAP rolls with lax verification, letting illegals and ghosts feast while taxpayers foot the bill. Revelations from complying states—mostly red—exposed the mess, leading to 700,000 purges and 118 arrests by mid-December 2025. The resisters? They’re shielding billions in waste, proving politics trumps people every time.
Clamping Down: Starve the Scammers, Save the System
Enough hand-wringing—time to act. First, mandate reapplication for all 43 million SNAP users to weed out the fakes. Cross-check rolls with Social Security death records to bury the zombie benefits once and for all. Enforce work requirements for able-bodied adults—no more free rides for the lazy.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on SNAP: “So much rampant fraud… 800,000 of 42 million have moved off of food stamps. We found 186,000 dead people, 500,000 receiving double benefits. Some people receiving benefits in 6 states.”
— America (@america) December 2, 2025
Hit the holdout states where it hurts: Withhold the $129.5 million in admin funds flowing to laggards like Washington until they comply. Prosecute the perps—refer double-dippers and traffickers to the DOJ for wire fraud and money laundering charges. Beef up retailer rules: No more corner stores swapping EBT for cash or cigs; require real stocking and audits to crush the $1.3 billion trafficking black market.
Ban illegals outright—letters went to governors in November 2025 prohibiting non-citizen access. Deploy tech like biometric verification on cards to stop skimming, which spiked to $136 million reported in Q1 2025 alone. And slash the bloat: With spending at $96 billion for fiscal 2025, trim the fat by targeting overpayments pegged at $9 billion yearly.
America First Means No More Free Lunch for Frauds
Rollins is right—this SNAP scam’s a slap in the face to every American busting their hump. Billions siphoned to the undead and the undeserving while kids go hungry? Not on our watch. By purging the parasites and plugging the holes, we reclaim those dollars for real needs, not grifter greed. The left’s freakout over data demands just proves they’re addicted to the waste. Time to drain this swamp, put work back in welfare, and make SNAP serve the people, not the pilferers. Anything less is a betrayal of the taxpayers who built this country.