Trump Admin Official Brags About Kicking 4.3 Million Americans Off SNAP

It takes a special kind of sick and twisted to revel in taking food stamps away from the 42 million Americans that rely on them every year—but unfortunately for all of us, there seems to be no shortage of sick and twisted in the Trump administration. 

On Sunday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins (the same dolt that told everyone to start living off $3 plates of chicken and broccoli) took to Twitter to celebrate that, per preliminary data released by the Department of Agriculture, nearly 4.3 million Americans lost SNAP benefits between January 2025 and 2026. According to her, the significant drop can be attributed both to the administration’s anti-fraud efforts, and that Trump’s improved the economy so much that a record number of Americans magically don’t need food stamps anymore. 

“4.3 million off SNAP and counting!” she tweeted in response to a graph depicting the drop in the food program’s participants. “Under President Trump, Americans are getting back to work! Healthy employment numbers mean less reliance on government programs. Leaving benefits for those who truly need them.” Speaking to Fox Business a few days earlier, she also claimed 14,000 SNAP recipients also own luxury cars like Ferraris and Teslas, though it’s not clear where—or how—she came up with this talking point. 

Better economy where? You mean the one where Americans paid $300 more on their groceries to compensate for Trump’s tariffs?

Kicking 4.3 million Americans off of SNAP is not a flex, it’s a failure. That’s why I’ve authored legislation to reverse the Trump SNAP cuts.

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— Rep. Shontel Brown (@repshontelbrown.bsky.social) April 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM

Most of this, naturally, is flat-out wrong. According a fact-check conducted by Politico, the drop in SNAP participants is not so much because of our beaming economy (???), but because of Trump’s One, Big, (extremely un-)Beautiful Bill from last summer, which issued the biggest ever setback to the program in its 87-year history. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the legislation will likely cut $186 billion in federal spending to SNAP in the next 10 years. 

What’s more is Rollins’ claims of fraud being rife among SNAP recipients is severely overemphasized—or completely unfounded. (If that sounds familiar, Vice President JD Vance similarly used the “war on fraud” to take healthcare away from Minnesotans in February.) While about 41,476 people were disqualified from SNAP for fraud in 2023, this figure is likely an overestimate, and one that accounts for less than 1% of SNAP recipients.

“I don’t see any evidence supporting a significant reduction in fraud as a driver of what we’re seeing as far as declining SNAP participation,” Caitlin Caspi, a food insecurity scholar told Politico. “We don’t see…a pattern of decline in unemployment that would match the pattern of decline in SNAP participation.”

But the administration has made somewhat of a habit of trying to starve Americans, and during last year’s government shutdown—the longest in U.S. history—abruptly changed SNAP rules to keep states from using emergency funds after the cash ran out, then threw a party at Mar-a-Lago as millions faced losing food stamps. In December, Rollins also floated during a Cabinet meeting to withhold food stamps from Dem.-led states unless they turn immigration information over to the federal government. And in January, Rollins actively suggested to Americans to eat “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing” as a way of fighting the affordability crisis. (After being mocked for this, she suggested adding a baked potato, too.) As New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) tweeted in December—“Genuine question: Why is the Trump Administration so hellbent on people going hungry?” 

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