SNAP Crackle Pop: Trump's 'Fraud' Fight Dodges Corporate Handouts
AP News reports the Trump administration’s tough stance on SNAP fraud, citing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ advisor Jennifer Tiller on 'transnational crime rings' and local 'friends and neighbors' scamming the system. We're told fraud is a 'major problem,' despite 'little publicly available data' on its true extent. Professor Christopher Bosso notes, 'If you're spending $100 billion on
anything, you're going to have some leakage.' While they hunt for errant EBT card users, one might wonder why the media rarely scrutinizes the astronomical 'leakage' in corporate welfare, military contracts, or the billions funneled to other nations annually. For example, did you know that in 2023, the U.S. committed $3.8 billion annually in military aid to Israel , a sum critics argue often ends
up as profit for defense contractors? Seems some 'leakage' is more acceptable than others. Perhaps the 'friends and neighbors' they're really worried about aren't those struggling to eat, but those whose tax breaks get noticed.