"President Trump's Secretary of Agriculture Friday said the silver lining of the looming cutoff of SNAP food aid is a greater awareness of the downsides of what she derided as a bloated and corrupt program. Even as two federal judges ruled that the government should make scheduled SNAP payments, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said there are some positive aspects of the prospect of 42 million Americans losing their benefits."
"This has sort of shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated, so broken, so dysfunctional, so corrupt, that it is astonishing when you dig in. So many people are taking advantage, added Rollins, who so far says she won't dip into a contingency fund to pay for SNAP amid the government shutdown."
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins characterized a potential cutoff of SNAP payments as an opportunity to expose alleged bloating, dysfunction, and corruption in the program. Two federal judges ordered that scheduled SNAP payments should be made, but the USDA shifted policy and has declined to use a contingency fund during the shutdown. Rollins said the administration intends to pursue SNAP reform and impose new restrictions to return the program to its original intent of aiding those truly needy rather than serving as a massive welfare benefit. Tens of millions of beneficiaries faced denial of monthly debit-card payments, a first in the program's 61-year history.
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