'Good news': Trump secretary brags about taking food stamps from '4.5 million people'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

May 8, 2026 12:00PM ET


Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently celebrated the removal of food stamps from 4.5 million Americans. During an interview with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty this week, Rollins seemed jubilant about her success in moving people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

"It's a supplemental program. It's only supposed to last for a little bit of time," she explained. "Every red state said, yes, we want to participate. We want to make sure we're doing right by our taxpayers.". According to Rollins, officials found "200,000 dead people" and "500,000 people getting more than one benefit" in red states. "The blue states sued us," she complained. "They won't share the data with us, even though we're funding those programs."

Finnerty pointed out that 41 million Americans relied on SNAP benefits to not go hungry. "Can you explain how these people are taking advantage of the program?" he asked.

"Under the Biden years, they increased the program by 40%," Rollins explained. "Of course, they were working to buy the election, but the billions and billions and billions of dollars that we have lost is just shocking." "Now, the good news, in just one year alone, we've already moved four and a half million people off of SNAP," she added.

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[RussBLib]

1. Great news

…if you hate poor folks. But, poor folks will always be with us. You want them to starve?

[Biophilic]

6. I believe that is exactly what they want.

[twodogsbarking]

2. How many missles is that equal to?

[Roy Rolling]

24. "They sued us" is all we need to know

Who the fu*k are these appointees to say “us” as if a member of a gang or cult? It’s as much my government as it is theirs. Us is me.

Oh, yeah, that’s the point.

[UpInArms]

3. the cruelty is a feature

not a bug

[displacedvermoter]

27. The Prime Directive

[Initech]

4. Fuck you Newsmax! Get your church out of my government!

[LymphocyteLover]

5. OMG just endless lies and disinfo. Biden was buying the election by giving more generous benefits? What a fucking BS lie

[Irish_Dem]

7. Their accusations of criminal activity are confessions.

They are the ones who buy votes and manipulate the populace.

Their lying and blame game is epic and a deliberate ploy to destroy our democracy.

[Hey Joe]

8. These "people", and I use that word dubiously,

make me wish there really is a hell.
Wouldn’t they be shocked when they see the flames……

[Cha]

9. ".....Doing right by taxpayers.. " like the fucking

"ballroom & fucking War you created"... And, fucking tariffs"

[FakeNoose]

10. Brooke Rollins hasn't done shit since she got out of law school - give me a break!

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Rollins

[republianmushroom]

11. And they want a billion for a ballroom.

[Skittles]

12. yes, Brooke, you STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLE

it WAS supposed to be "supplemental" - but TRICKLE DOWN BULLSHIT made it so MORE AND MORE PEOPLE NEED HELP BUYING FOOD.......and you fucking repukes do NOTHING to help them

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. But we get a big beautiful ballroom

Only one billion dollars

[Hugin]

14. Supplemental does not mean what she thinks it means.

There is no temporary implied.

[chouchou]

15. How much have they increased the Nation's Debt? 4-5 Trillion?..

..and they're worried about food stamps for the poor.
When the Aliens come here and make me Queen-of-the-earth....I send those MF to Mercury. (800 degrees)

[sakabatou]

16. Rollins: People starving, and those starving to death, is fun to watch!

[OldBaldy1701E]

25. Which is why, once the regime is removed, she needs to be put in the same situation.

Put her in a cell and give her one small bit of food a day. Just enough to keep her alive so that her stomach can slowly eat her insides out.

Oh, and a daily session of several people standing around berating and insulting her for being poor and unable to act like a rich cuck.

Fucking bitch.

[GenThePerservering]

17. Erm...do all the poor folks in the impoverished red states

who honestly rely on food stamps and have now had them stripped, go along with this?

They going to be able to afford that one piece of chicken, one piece of broccoli, a tortilla and one other thing she has decreed is enough for the peasants?

[orangecrush]

18. Hello lamp post

Whatcha knowin?

I've come to watch your flowers growin

[Buddyzbuddy]

19. What type of "person" does it take to be joyful

about another person's misery. It's bad enough to ignore a person in need, especially children but to giddy about it is just monstrous. But, we expect nothing less from the whole Republican party.

[area51]

20. Rollins is vermin. n/t

[Crowman2009]

21. There's a special place in hell for people like her.

If not, hopefully she'll die alone in her old age.

[sheshe2]

22. this idiot?

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that comments she made last week suggesting Americans could get a nutritious meal consisting of a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and “one other thing” for just $3 were meant to describe a “more robust plate.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/5696881-rollins-clarifies-affordable-meals/

[trusty elf]

23. I'm sure she's a good Christian!

[twodogsbarking]

31. She sells Jesus stickers down at the sticker store.

[twodogsbarking]

26. Feed the rich, starve the poor, 'til there are no poor no more.

Rewrite of a classic. We need to change the world.

[Martin68]

29. Ten Years After!

[twodogsbarking]

30. Fifty-five years later, here we are.

[Martin68]

28. Ah, the banality of evil.