- United States
- Mich.
- Letter
Stop repeating false claims about SNAP fraud. Secretary Rollins' allegation that 14,000 food stamp recipients drive luxury vehicles comes from a single source: the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative think tank that won't name the state, won't explain their methodology, and has spent 14 years trying to dismantle programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and Social Security. This isn't evidence. It's propaganda. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/republicans-snap-fraud-welfare-queen/
Actual SNAP fraud has dropped from 4% in the 1990s to 1.5% today. Meanwhile, over two-thirds of the 38 million Americans receiving SNAP are elderly, disabled, or children. To qualify, a single person must earn less than $15,960 annually. These aren't people driving Maseratis. They're people trying to eat.
The new work requirements you supported have already pushed four million Americans off food aid. Unemployment has held steady at 4% since July, so the economy isn't the reason enrollment dropped. People are going hungry because you made it harder to get help.
The Trump regime are the real "welfare queens," not SNAP beneficiaries. The real scandal isn't fraud. It's that thousands of eligible Americans go hungry every year rather than receive aid they qualify for. Vote to restore SNAP eligibility and reject FGA's manufactured crisis.