As you contemplate the complication of the Schumer shutdown, don’t forget that there were millions of illegals tapping the EBT system for food and fun—at least 1.5 million.
According to the USDA, the noncitizens include “lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, those granted a stay of deportation, and undocumented individuals… Undocumented individuals are not eligible to receive SNAP benefits, but may be nonparticipating members of SNAP households.”
California led the way in enrolling noncitizens on Food Stamps, with 273,000 in FY 2022. Florida had 238,000, New York 218,000, Texas 132,000, and Illinois 73,000 noncitizens. In contrast, Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, West Virginia, and Wyoming reported no noncitizens on Food Stamps.
Yesterday we shared this meme. It’s a graph, not vetted, showing the percentage of households by ethnicity who are tapping the taxpayer-funded food tamper program.
At first glance, I’d say it’s safe to say that we 1) need to audit this and 2) much like Medicaid/ObamaCare, if states want to issue disbursements to those who cannot legally receive federal dollars, they need to pay for that themselves.
I’ll add, also, that – as I’ve mentioned previously, this entire Food Stamp exercise ought to be a state-funded state-level thing. Government shutdowns’s being what they are, and food security ranking near the top of many a list of social justice talking points, it only makes sense to devolve it all, via law or rules or whatever, out of federal hands.
Sure, some states would do very little, while others would do too much, but that seems to be the case now. According to the report, $4.2 billion in food stamp money went to non-citizens.
Yesterday, in the morning update, I talked about how states are illegally giving Medicaid/ObamaCare aid to non-citizens in violation of federal law. It turns out they are also abusing those funds for wildly inappropriate expenses they expect you to fund.
In an Aug. 18 letter to Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Oregon lawmaker noted the strip club was only one issue of many with the Oregon Medicaid program.
He noted in the letter that $2.3 million in Medicaid funds were paid in the last year to an organization that housed a Venezuelan gang member charged with kidnapping, torture, and attempted murder. Further, Medicaid reimbursements have paid for “sex change” operations on minors.
Another expense in Oregon included using medicaid money to pay for taking developmentally disabled adults to strip clubs as part of integrating them into the community.
to strip clubs and bars,” Yunker said. “They say they are integrating them with the community. But we are not talking about taking them to a park or the museum.”
Depending on the disability and the medication they are taking, does this at least potentially fall into the category of overstimulation?
And who among you thought this was a reasonable use of other people’s money?
It is Oregon, and we’re talking “progressive” therapists. What isn’t a reasonable use, and hey, while you’re at it, we want more. A lot more, in fact: Senate Dems shut down the government over a 10% reduction of their increase.
Those illegal Afghans, Somalis, and Iraqis illegally tapping the EBT program are going hungry because Senators won’t vote for the clean R that would illegally feed those illegals until they can illegally provide medical insurance or services to those same illegals.
