Rollins told a Cabinet meeting that the administration would stop moving federal funds to the states starting next week unless the states provided recipients’ personal data to help “root out” fraud. In October, a federal judge granted blue states’ request for an injunction blocking such a demand.
She proceeded to claim that former President Joe Biden “increased food stamp funding by 40%” during his reelection push last year, a claim that could be “outright false” or “misleading at best,” Snopes noted last month.
“So now as we continue to roll that back — so the partnership in Making America Healthy Again is also in food stamps … but, again, just gratitude and joy in this work and so, so grateful to you,” said Rollins to Trump.
Critics on X swiftly interpreted Rollins’ comments as her delighting in blocking Americans from receiving food aid.
Lawmakers such as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) decried Rollins’ comments as “cruel” while others likened them to a line straight out of “Hunger Games.”