Trump Administration Moves To Withhold Snap

Trump administration is moving to withhold SNAP benefits from states unless they provide information on recipients. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says fraud is taking place in the federal food assistance program. Rollins had more to say during a cabinet meeting today. >> Still, when we found 186,000 dead people or dead people's social security numbers being used, 500,000 people receiving benefits more than twice. We had a couple of people receiving benefits in six states. In February of this year, we asked for all the states for the first time to turn over their data to the federal government to let the USDA partner with them to root out this fraud. Democratic states have sued to block the requirement. About 42 million lowerincome Americans receive SNAP benefits. The program costs taxpayers about $8 billion a month. Before the end of the recent government shutdown, the administration said it could not fund the program for November. The government ultimately reopened and benefits resumed.