
<p>In the dark age of America under Joe Biden, when inflation was soaring, the federal government put as many people on federally funded food stamps as it could, including illegal aliens it brought into the country. Now Democrats are blocking the Trump administration’s effort to make states account for those funds. Hence the rhetorical question: what are they hiding?</p>



<p>Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) reportedly serves over 42 million people across the country. The Biden administration extended its benefits to illegal aliens so generously that hardworking American taxpayers were left wondering why their tax money is being showered on those who should never have been allowed into the country.</p>



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<p>The Trump administration, after taking office in January 2025, started asking the states to provide details of the recipients of SNAP funds. The purpose of this information requested from the states was to determine the level of fraud, waste, and/or abuse in the program. Aside from individual instances of fraud reported here and there, blue states in general reported most cases of SNAP fraud. As reported in <em>Newsweek</em> in June this year, citing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service, the top three states with most SNAP fraud cases are New York ($80 million), California ($38 million), and Maryland ($24 million).</p>



<p>The Trump administration also wanted to know how many illegal aliens were enrolled for the SNAP benefits and this made the Democrats tick. In July, Democrat attorneys general from 21 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) sued the Trump administration against the demand to reveal details of who received SNAP benefits. Led by California, the lawsuit was filed in a federal court by attorneys general and/or Governors of the states of California, New York, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky (by the Office of the Governor), Maine (by the Office of the Governor), Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin.</p>



<p>Reporting on the lawsuit, the <em>Associated Press</em> cited California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta condemning the Trump administration’s demand for the identity of those who received the SNAP funds while spilling the reason of his opposition to the federal government’s requirement. He expressed the fear that it would reveal the identity of the illegal aliens benefiting from the program and thus become subject to deportation:</p>



<p><em>“SNAP recipients provided this information to get help feeding their families, not to be entered into a government surveillance database or be used as targets in the president’s inhumane immigration agenda.”</em></p>



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Democrats Shielding Illegal Aliens in Food Stamps Fraud Inquiry
