"Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is promising big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which currently helps almost 42 million Americans buy groceries. In recent media appearances she said attention on SNAP during the government shutdown "has given us a platform to completely deconstruct the program" and said details about structural changes to the program would be released this week."
"Food policy experts say they are concerned that Rollins' talking points suggest a distorted view of the prevalence of SNAP recipients committing fraud, and seem to conflate fraud with payment errors of any kind. "My worry is that she's risking setting a public narrative that this is a program that has more fraud than it actually does, or that the people who need it and use it to meet their very basic food needs are somehow committing a crime by seeking food assistance," said Stacy Dean, executive director of George Washington University's Global Food Institute and a former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) official during the Biden admini"
Brooke Rollins is proposing major structural changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which serves almost 42 million Americans. Rollins framed recent attention during the government shutdown as a chance to "completely deconstruct the program" and promised imminent details. The administration asserts state data revealed "massive fraud," but has not provided the underlying evidence. The push coincides with new work requirements and eligibility rules that could remove benefits from millions, measures described as the deepest cuts in SNAP history. Food policy experts warn that public claims risk overstating fraud and conflating criminal fraud with routine payment errors.
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