Blue States Told to Turn Over SNAP Data for Audit or Lose Funding. There is way too much fraud in the SNAP program. It’s time to handle this.
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President Trump’s Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, is taking a hard line on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Rollins has called for every SNAP recipient to reapply for benefits, but in the meantime, she is demanding that all states provide detailed SNAP data so her department can audit it for fraud.
NO DATA, NO MONEY — it’s that simple.
If a state won’t share data on criminal use of SNAP benefits, it won’t get a dollar of federal SNAP administrative funding.
Let’s see which states stand for accountability and which are just protecting their bribery schemes. 🤔💸 pic.twitter.com/Y1UXXDOoao
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) December 2, 2025
Most Republican-led states have already complied, but Democratic-led states such as California, New York, and Minnesota have resisted. Rollins has issued a stark ultimatum: provide the requested data or risk losing SNAP funding entirely.
NBC News reports:
The Trump administration indicated Tuesday that it will begin withholding SNAP benefits from recipients in many Democratic-led states starting next week after those states refused to provide the Agriculture Department with information including recipients’ names and immigration statuses.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday that 29 Republican-led states have provided the data, but 21 states, including California, New York, and Minnesota, have not. The department requested the information in February to “root out … fraud.”
“So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states, until they comply and allow us to partner with them to root out this fraud and to protect the American taxpayer,” Rollins said at the White House meeting.
There is only one reason blue states won’t be transparent – they have something to hide.
All states should be eager to work with the Trump admin to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in SNAP to ensure 100% of benefits go to hungry families in need. https://t.co/kXsQu85wwK
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) December 3, 2025
Fantastic, thank you madam secretary.
The 21 resist states won’t comply so this will eventually get to SCOTUS.
But how can it be OK for states to refuse to share recipient data with the feds in a 100% federally funded program? https://t.co/XPeansCN2H
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 3, 2025
About 42 million Americans receive food assistance through SNAP, making it one of the country’s largest social support programs.
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