Today, on the Morning Update, we all knew there was fraud in federal grants, welfare, aid, and other programs, but it is clear the scope is significant, and democrats (mostly) don’t want it found or are just denying it exists. The Left is going long to prevent people from finding more of it, but I’m not sure how you maintain that fantasy after seeing this?
chapters
00:00 The SNAP Debate: Understanding Food Stamp Fraud
00:35 The Scale of Fraud: A Shocking Revelation
01:12 Luxury Vehicles and Food Stamp Recipients: A Contradiction
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Ep. 161 Links
- https://granitegrok.com/new-england/nh/2026/04/macdonald-jbartletts-snap-report-begs-questions
- https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/04/29/limousine-leeches-sec-brooke-rollins-drops-a-bombshell-on-some-of-the-people-receiving-snap-n2427653
- https://thefga.org/research/from-luxury-vehicles-fake-emails-why-food-stamp-program-integrity-more-important-now-than-ever/
- https://thefga.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/from-luxury-vehicles-to-fake-emails-food-stamp-program-integrity.pdf
- https://x.com/SecRollins/status/2049131612835586505
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Transcript [lightly edited]
Welcome to your Thursday morning, April 30th, update. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a nice piece you should check out on SNAP. The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, which is a local think tank, was making an argument that bills that would prevent SNAP or food stamp recipients from buying things like soda and candy cost retailers lots of money.
I made a really good argument about why that’s probably not true at all, and I asked the question, well, then why would you want to stop the fraud? Because clearly that’s good for retailers too. Which brings me to today’s point.
Fraud has become epidemic, has been epidemic. And we’ve only just discovered how bad the problem is, thanks to independent journalists like Nick Shirley in Minnesota and California. We’re talking from tens of billions to hundreds of billions of dollars annually being stolen from people in actual need.
Most red states are cooperating, most blue states are not cooperating and suing, and then you have places like California, which, instead of passing laws to prevent the fraud, is passing laws to stop independent journalists like Nick Shirley from uncovering it.
It’s bad. Just how bad?
In 2023 alone, food stamp enrollees in just one state owned more than 14,000 luxury vehicles. Critically, these were newer vehicles manufactured in just the last handful of years, not an old Porsche from 78 or a Lamborghini from 97. Moreover, the list is not of all new vehicles, just typical luxury vehicles that were newly manufactured. So there are more than 14,000 new vehicles in the possession of food stamp owners
So clearly there’s a lot of fraud. We are sending food stamp money to people who don’t need it.
It has long been my practice to buy low-mileage used cars. I can’t even remember the last time I bought a new vehicle. Brand new, brand spanking new, right out of the factory, off the lot. Can’t remember. It’s been that long. But if you see me driving a Lamborghini around, you should probably ask me if I signed up for food stamps.
That’s it for today.
We’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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