Right-Sizing SNAP
**USDA's Rollins: SNAP Faces 'Right-Sizing' Changes
By James Morley III | Wednesday, 19 November 2025
**USDA's Rollins: SNAP Faces 'Right-Sizing' Changes
By James Morley III | Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday that the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will undergo major
changes, even though regular funding has resumed now that the
government shutdown is over.
On "NewsNation Now," Rollins said, "Clearly there's a right
-sizing that needs to happen with the program."
After the 43-day shutdown ended, Rollins announced that SNAP
beneficiaries must reapply in order to eliminate suspected fraud,
adding that other changes to the benefits program will be announced
after Thanksgiving.
"We have to make sure that for those who really need this
benefit, it's going to the right people," she said. "So, we're
making a lot of structural changes in SNAP."
Rollins said that before the shutdown, USDA data from 29 Re-
publican-led states showed that 186,000 deceased enrollees were
still receiving SNAP benefits and 500,000 people were receiving
benefits twice.
"And that just includes the states that have sent their data
in," Rollins said. "That doesn't include most of the blue states,
where we believe there's even more fraud and abuse."
She added that SNAP benefits increased by 40% under the Biden
administration. "The unintended consequence of the Democrat shut-
down is that the spotlight has been shined on this," she said,
"and we have to make sure that for those who really need this
benefit, it's going to the right people."
In fiscal 2024, SNAP served an average of 41.7 million people
each month, with federal spending totaling $99.8 billion, about
$187.20 per recipient monthly, according to the USDA.
James Morley III ✉**
Since November 2024, the government has been reducing the cost
while slightly decreasing the number of recipients to 41.3M or 12.1%
of the population from Obama's about 47.2M in 2013.
The number has shrunk by about 700K as Trump chips away at the
inflation Biden created.
The point is that the Democrat administrations robbed the us
of Trillions of dollars and made themselves wealthy but still do
not care about the country or the people who voted them into office.
This has been a disastrous string of losers with the only one
trying to fight for Americans has been Trump's two terms.
The left has been a massive failure.
We pray and have faith that keeps us going.
Conservatively,
John
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