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The head of the US Agriculture Department on Thursday celebrated that millions of people have lost federal nutrition assistance under the second Trump administration, declaring that families who have seen their modest aid disappear are closer to realizing “the American dream.”
Speaking at an event in Arizona, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins—who has an estimated net worth of around $15 million—said that the Trump administration has “moved about 4 million off of SNAP,” referring to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Rollins suggested, without evidence, that some of those who have lost SNAP benefits were receiving them fraudulently.
‘Number of People Who Don’t Have Enough to Eat’ Surging Due to Trump-GOP Aid Cuts
‘4.3 Million Off SNAP and Counting!’ Trump Official Celebrates Mass Loss of Food Aid
But others, claimed Rollins, are “moving into the American dream and off of welfare.”
Katie Bergh, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), wrote in response that “unless the Trump administration has redefined ‘the American dream’ to mean ‘losing the help your family needs to afford groceries because of federal cuts,’ I have some bad news for Secretary Rollins.”
Watch Rollins’ remarks:
Trump administration officials, including President Donald Trump himself, have repeatedly used euphemistic language to describe the large-scale loss of food aid following passage of the Republican budget reconciliation package last summer. That measure contains $186 billion in SNAP cuts over the next decade—the largest in the program’s history.
During his State of the Union address in February, Trump boasted that his administration has “lifted” millions of Americans off SNAP, falsely suggesting that the mass loss of benefits was attributable to stronger economic conditions rather than deliberate policy changes designed to boot people from the program.
“Economic conditions haven’t been improving as the number of people receiving SNAP has plummeted in recent months, representing the sharpest decline in decades,” CBPP noted in a recent analysis. “The last time there was such a steep decrease in participation in such a short period of time (other than temporary spikes following natural disasters) was nearly three decades ago, after Congress enacted very deep cuts to SNAP (then the Food Stamp Program) in 1996.”
“SNAP participation has fallen in every state,” the think tank added, “and in some, the drop is particularly alarming.”
“The government hasn’t ‘lifted’ Americans facing food insecurity; it’s simply decided to kick them down the elevator shaft.”
Arizona, the state Rollins visited on Thursday, saw a roughly 50% decline in the number of people receiving SNAP benefits between January 2025 and February of this year, with hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.
“We certainly are not seeing a drop in the number of folks that are participating because we’ve solved hunger,” Adrienne Udarbe, executive director of the nonprofit group Pinnacle Prevention, told AZFamily earlier this week.
One Tucson, Arizona resident, a single mother of three, told the Unrig Our Economy coalition on Friday that “even working full-time, I’ve been unable to access SNAP benefits since March thanks to Republicans’ cuts.”
“Costs are already rising everywhere because of Republicans’ tariffs and their war in Iran, and cutting food assistance is pushing families like mine over the edge,” said the mother, identified as Angelica G. “It’s difficult to work so hard to make ends meet just to watch Republicans in Congress give even more tax breaks to billionaires while cutting food services that families like mine rely on.”
In Kansas, more than 21,000 people have lost SNAP benefits since July. Haley Kottler, senior campaign director at the advocacy group Kansas Appleseed, said in a statement Thursday that “these are not just abstract numbers.”
“These are Kansas kids losing access to food,” said Kottler. “This has real implications for Kansas children to access the nutrition they need to learn, grow, and thrive.”
Rollins’ comments Thursday came amid a flurry of data showing the weakness of the US economy and the struggles of working-class families under Trump’s leadership, from rising inflation to falling personal savings rates.
Earlier this week, as Common Dreams reported, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released an analysis showing that the US has seen “a remarkable increase in food insecurity” in recent months, “particularly among lower-educated and lower-income households and households with young children.”
Political analyst Steve Benen wrote in a column for MS NOW on Tuesday that “Republicans seem to think this is worth bragging about.”
“Trump’s routine use of the word ‘lift’ makes it sound as if struggling families were put onto an elevator that carried them to a stronger and more secure position,” wrote Benen. “That turns reality on its head: Thanks to the inaptly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the government hasn’t ‘lifted’ Americans facing food insecurity; it’s simply decided to kick them down the elevator shaft, depriving much of the public of food aid.”
Just got a call, a friend taken to emergency room, but wanted to share this...BIMBO BONDIE LOST IN COURT! Is she really an attorney?
Too lazy to research governing statutes and case law? Made WILD and FALSE ACCUSATIONS!
Federal judge dismisses Trump administration's lawsuit over Boston's 'Trust Act'
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A federal judge in Boston has dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit against the city of t got a Boston over its immigration enforcement policy, saying the U.S. lacks standing to bring the claim against the mayor and other officials.
In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin denied the federal government's effort to bar enforcement of Boston's Trust Act — and ordinance that says police can't take part in civil immigration enforcement.
"In Massachusetts, there is simply no source of authority empowering Boston
police officers to do what the United States would like them to do," Sorokin wrote in his decision. "An order enjoining the Boston Trust Act would not liberate the City to empower its officers to take actions state law does not authorize, nor give Boston police officers the individual choice to honor ICE detainers."
The Trump administration filed suit last year against Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Police Department, saying the city's policy to cooperate with immigration enforcement officials only in criminal matters violates federal law.
At the time, then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took sharp aim at Boston and the mayor, calling the city and Wu "among the worst sanctuary offenders in America."
The mayor and Gov. Maura Healey have said that neither the city nor the state are "sanctuary" jurisdictions, and that law enforcement officials here routinely cooperate with federal officials on criminal matters.
Sorokin wrote that to override the principles of the Trust Act, the state Legislature could enact a statute authorizing Massachusetts law enforcement officers to arrest people facing civil immigration violations. Or, he said, Congress could enact federal legislation giving local law enforcement that authority.
Or, he said, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court could conclude that its 2017 Lunn ruling was wrongly decided. In that decision, the state's highest court found that holding someone for ICE on a civil immigration matter, after they should otherwise be released from local custody, is not permitted in Massachusetts.
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