SNAP Is Beyond Broken

From millionaires to overseas foreigners, from NFL players to luxury car owners, our money is going to everyone but us.  

Richard Blakley | May 2, 2026

You’d think that the recent find of 34,000 deceased North Carolinians still registered to vote would be bad enough, but Epoch Times reported 5,000 deceased people are also receiving SNAP benefits.  This sounds like the plot of a B-rate horror movie: “Night of the Voting/Eating Dead.”

SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program providing benefits to people, like food stamps.  USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins stated that SNAP is one of the “most corrupt, dysfunctional programs” in U.S. history, with 80% of the people using the program being able to work.  Rollins stated that 5,000 dead people were getting SNAP, while another 500,000 people were double-dipping the SNAP program, getting twice the benefits under the same name.  Rollins stated that there is “massive fraud,” which has only been found in the states that have cooperated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—21 states refuse to hand over SNAP data.  All but 2 of the 29 states working to rout out the fraud are Republican states.  Democrat-states are suing the USDA, saying they do not have to share this data.  Well, should these noncooperative states continue to receive this benefit?  Not cooperating with solving a crime, isn’t that aiding and abetting criminal activity?

Recent data show that it’s not just 5,000 deceased people receiving SNAP benefits, but........

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