Speaking amidst the SNAP brouhaha, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins revealed a shocking statistic about how many deceased people across the nation are receiving SNAP benefits.
Rollins recalled that on the day she took office, she sent a letter to all 50 states saying that the federal government had never asked for the data before, but that it now needed the personal data, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and addresses, of SNAP recipients. She said on X that she sent the letter “so we could make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits meant for American families,” adding, “The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens. They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census.”
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“29 states — mostly the red states — responded with their data sets, February, March, April; so the numbers that you’re talking through, those are numbers that we have been collecting and analyzing since early summer/late spring,” she said. “The fact that this spotlight shined on SNAP has allowed us to talk about it. But here’s the most unbelievable news I have [learned] really just over the last few days: That 5,000 dead people, that was just one month; the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check. That is what we are really going to start clamping down on. Half a million are getting two [checks].”
“But here’s the really stunning thing,” she continued. “This is just data from those 29, mostly red, states. Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data, what we’re gonna find? It’s gonna give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
BREAKING: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to OVERHAUL entire SNAP program after major fraud exposed
– 186,000 dead people receiving benefits
– 500,000 recipients are getting double benefits
– every recipient will need to reapply to verify "they can't survive without it"… pic.twitter.com/J2UE23KMTa— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 14, 2025
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