Trump administration officials have been making efforts throughout the year to keep people from relying on food stamps and other forms of welfare, but they have also made strides in taking down criminals committing food stamp fraud for financial gain.
The Trump administration announced Thursday it would provide additional restrictions on states’ use of waivers to get out of a requirement mandating able-bodied food stamp recipients to work to receive benefits for more than three months.
The First Step Act, if signed into law by President Trump, would reduce the federal prison population by 53,000 inmates, the CBO reveals.
Food stamp enrollment dropped over the past year in 47 out of 50 states, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics on nationwide food stamp enrollment.
The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers say ending welfare-dependent immigration to the United States would do “serious harm” to the nation and be a “serious mistake.”
A deal in which President Trump accepts an amnesty for millions of DACA illegal aliens in exchange for minor border wall funding would be counterproductive to the “America First” goals of the administration, depressing U.S. wages in the process ahead of the 2020 election.
More than 3.5 million people have dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump’s first full month in office, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
Authorities arrested and charged two dozen people for carrying out $50,000 worth of food stamp fraud, according to investigators with the Rhode Island State Police.
Food stamp usage by newly arrived legal immigrants have dropped by about 10 percent, research reveals, as President Trump is expected to enact new legal immigration controls.
Participation in the nation’s food stamp program has sunk to an all-time low, reaching its lowest level in nearly a decade, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Millions of taxpayers dollars trafficked through food stamp fraud went to terrorists who funded their activities at home and abroad, according to an explosive report from the Government Accountability Institute.
Kansas Secretary of State and GOP nominee for governor Kris Kobach’s populist welfare reform initiative includes mandatory drug testing for food stamp recipients and a work requirement for Medicaid beneficiaries.
An investigator in charge of weeding out food stamp fraud in Mississippi is accused of carrying out fraud schemes like the ones he was supposed to stop.
Overall participation in the nation’s food stamp program dropped to its lowest level since November 2009, according to the latest statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Federal authorities have warned the state of Illinois that it could face significant fines for over-issuing food stamps to individuals who did not qualify to receive them, according to a report released Monday.
An Ohio strip club had its liquor license revoked Thursday for allegedly accepting food stamps for lap dances and illegal drugs.
A husband and wife who own two convenience stores in Jacksonville, Florida, were accused of committing food stamp fraud, the Justice Department announced Monday.
The number of people on food stamps has declined for eight straight months, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw some not-so-subtle shade at Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday when he introduced a bill that would allow the government to charge big corporations for the federal welfare programs its low-income workers use.
Employees of Florida’s welfare agency are under investigation for possible food stamp fraud, according to a report released Monday.
Breitbart News exclusively obtained California’s food stamp waiver which details how the state exploited a loophole in SNAP work requirements to allow 95 percent of its counties to become exempted from food stamp work requirements.
Preventing welfare-dependent legal immigrants from permanently resettling in the United States and eventually becoming U.S. citizens would “help out the American taxpayer,” an expert tells SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
More than half of the annual inflow of foreign refugees arriving in the United States are on food stamps, analysis of a government report reveals.
President Trump’s ban on allowing welfare-dependent legal immigrants to resettle permanently in the United States would likely save each American taxpayer about $1,600 a year.
Trump is set to roll out a plan in the next month that bars foreign nationals who need government welfare to live from resettling in the U.S.
More than 2.8 million people dropped off food stamps since President Trump’s first full month in office, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
“When the House and Senate meet on the very important Farm Bill – we love our farmers – hopefully, they will be able to leave the WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR FOOD STAMPS PROVISION that the House approved,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Rep. Michael Conaway said that he hopes to make the case to ensure that work requirements for food stamps make it in the Final farm bill.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that work requirements for food stamps needs to be in the Farm bill.
Food stamp participation dropped below 40 million for the first time in eight years, according to the latest numbers on food stamp enrollment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue endorsed work requirements for food stamps in an interview on Monday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent a total of $4 billion on improper food stamp payments to those receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the USDA confirmed with Breitbart News on Friday.
The number of households on food stamps has dipped below 20 million for the first time in eight years, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
A state audit of Missouri’s food stamp program found thousands of prison inmates and dead people redeemed food stamp benefits for food purchases.
The 2018 Farm Bill, scheduled for a vote on the House floor this week, could get at least 1.6 million people off of food stamps.
A Rhode Island deputy sheriff has been accused of taking food stamp benefits while raking in a tax-free state salary.
The House will vote next week on a Farm bill that, if passed, would impose work requirements on food stamp recipients.
More than 2.2 million people have discontinued their participation in food stamps during President Trump’s first full year in office, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data on food stamp enrollment.
Food stamp enrollment dropped by more than 1.3 million in just two months, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).