The following is from House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency Chairman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) is investigating several states’ refusal to provide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) data to the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) that the administration requested to help USDA identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the program. In letters to the governors of California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—the states with the largest SNAP populations that failed to provide requested data to USDA—Subcommittee Chairman Burchett requests information concerning their refusal to provide data critical to USDA’s efforts to identify fraud.
“The Trump Administration greatly improved the integrity of SNAP, but cooperation from the states remains vital to ensure that federal funds go only to eligible Americans,” said Subcommittee Chairman Burchett. “In Fiscal Year 2024, SNAP cost taxpayers $100 billion, despite a payment error rate of nearly 11 percent.”
Roughly $10 billion in taxpayer funds were paid out improperly through SNAP in 2024, and billions more were lost to program fraud. Twenty-nine states have complied with USDA’s request for SNAP data. Those states that provided the data requested by USDA were overwhelmingly governed by Republican administrations; the states that failed to comply were overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats.
The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency is holding a hearing on June 25, 2026, to examine the root causes of waste, fraud, and abuse within SNAP. This hearing will also explore reforms and oversight measures that would strengthen SNAP program integrity, safeguard taxpayer dollars, and ensure benefits are directed to eligible recipients.
Read the letters here:
- California Governor Gavin Newsom
- New York Governor Kathy Hochul
- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
- Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
- Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro
obamacare and covid put millions onto medicaid. Once on medicaid, the recipients are repeatedly notified they’re eligible for food stamps.
Helena Fowlkes, who will most likely be elected to be the next Gov in RI sail, and I heard her, that she would not comply even if it meant Medicaid would be suspended State wide. (at 13:09) https://turnto10.com/politics/10-news-conference/helena-foulkes-democratic-candidate-rhode-island-govenor-cvs-opioids-costco-board-store-washington-bridge-peter-alviti-ice-immigration-christmas-tree-december-6-2025
Lisa,
Sharyl
-and Full Measure Team :
Re : How…SNAP…relates…to…the…Soviet/
Communist…Model…( something-for-no-nothing
welfare benefits )
Forwarded Message :
Jane,
You have a constitutional right to HATE, as do I; e.g., I hate this devious/misleading word : “CAPITALISM,” which term Karl Marx gave the world to HIDE the reality of the founding purpose of the U.S. Constitution, as ( somewhat cryptically ) set out in the Preamble : Meritism/Meritocracy – embedded in our right to liberty, which is M-E-R-T-I-S-M, employed to ensure : “Domestic Tranquility.”
That term, Domestic Tranquility, if applied by WHITE lawyers before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Fifties, would have halted, for an example, those Libertine liberals’ – the Board-of-Education’s – 1950s FORCED-INTEGRATION legislation, which MORONIC / MONGREL “black” Justice Thurgood Marshal ( he believed/stated/advised that blacks don’t do as well as WHITES JUST because of segregation in schools ) had DESTROYED public education for WHITES (( in the Sixties, a grade of “D” in private schools was considered by educators – e.g., by deans of colleges – to be a grade of “B” earned in any public school, as one dean had informed this scribbler in 1965 ! )) as it had begun the inexorable DUMBING-down, to make us believe blacks were just as equipped, genetically, to match WHITES’ education abilities/potentials/results.
The SEMITIC Bolsheviks had bragged they’d destroy the CAPITALIST West, by using the forced-integration of the black race. They had stated the use of that means to topple the WEST while robbing, raping, killing WHITE Christian Russians – see the wholesale starvation of Christian Ukrainians – while they were creating the Soviet/COMMUNIST government of ANTI-MERIT ( find and study the “House of Government,” which very-hard-to-read book about Brutalitarian – my term – Bolsheviks’ governing culture/outcome CAN BE summed-up with these informative words that rank-and-file Russians would secretly use to mock/joke/demean that Soviet/Communist Model :
“They
………pretend
………………….to
…………………….pay
…………………………us
……………………………and
…………………………………we
…………………………………….pretend
………………………………………………..to
……………………………………………………work”;
again :
regarding implementation of that Marxian
SNAP program—that Soviet/Communist/
Anti-Merit Model having no REAL NEED-
For-Benefits Check-Up ( fraud, waste, and
abuse UN-accountability, which lack of
actual MERIT for receiving welfare
EXPLODES into, say, a millionaire taking
advantage of the freebies ).
A Moral Hazard.
-Rick