NO! Truly needy starving people are not going to be kicked off this program. Of course, in America there aren't that many starving people here.
Here are the facts: https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-agency-uncovers-one-largest-food-stamp-fraud-bribery-schemes
Trump agency uncovers 'one of the largest' food stamp fraud, bribery schemes
With the assistance of the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office, six individuals have been criminally charged with a bribe and fraud scheme that generated more than $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps. The defendants — Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh and Arlasa Davis — are accused of "conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate U.S. Department of Agriculture benefits," according to a press release.\
Starting in 2019, the indictment states that Kehoe created a network that supplied 160 unauthorized electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to stores across the New York area, to illegally process more than $30 million in EBT transactions.
"This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch. Their actions undermined a program that vulnerable New Yorkers depend on for basic nutrition," U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone said in the media release. "That is no longer going to be allowed here in Washington, and with these programs like the food stamp program. So we're going to move forward, obviously in partnership with the FBI, with the Department of Justice, of course our team at USDA. This is not the 'one and only,’" Rollins said. "There are going to be many more to come, and we're gonna make sure that we're delivering on our promises to the taxpayers."
Nobody who actually needs those food stamps will be cut off. But those who have defrauded the program have been arrested. They're going to prison, hopefully.
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Nobody who actually needs those food stamps will be cut off. But those who have defrauded the program have been arrested. They're going to prison, hopefully.
Aha, but the cuts are already scheduled into the budget. If savings are not found by uncovering fraud (and the dismal performance of DOGE to date casts doubt on these actions delivering any more than a small fraction of the boasts of their sponsors), then it will be the poor who pay.
It would be a sign of good faith (and far more productive) if the Trump administration pursued income tax fraud with as much zeal as it does over the limited resources available to the poorest in society.
@iamthe99 anyone engaged in fraudulent activity is stealing from both the taxpayers and those needy children you claim to be so distressed about. Why would you support that or oppose it being stopped? That makes no sense!
@GerOttman It is all about proportionality. The case cited above makes for juicy headlines, but the majority of welfare fraud is likely to consist of smsll scale offences by poor people or genuine mistakes. Directing this zeal towards income and corporation tax fraud would be far more efficient and effective, but politically less popular.
@SunshineGirl well, one of us believes that. the other understands that criminal organizations operate fraud on an industrial scale. wherever money is found, so is the fraud. but rainbows and unicorns and candy floss clouds appear to be more to your liking! you wouldn't like the reality of poverty and i doubt you would survive.
@GerOttman Well, if the industrial-scale fraud exists in food stamps, there is no further debate. But as Mr Musk has discovered to his cost, the grimy reality is a touch more complicated than the political rhetoric. For my money, chasing the tax cheats is rather more satisfying game . . 🦁
