States that refuse to open their books on food-stamp spending are about to feel real pressure from Washington. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told the Trump cabinet Tuesday that the USDA will cut off federal SNAP funds to any state that keeps hiding its data — a direct response to what she called a mountain of fraud sitting inside a program used by 42 million Americans. - Rollins said the problem came into full view earlier this year, when the USDA asked every governor to hand over their SNAP data so federal investigators could finally track where the money was going. Only 29 states — almost all Republican-led — cooperated. The others, including California, New York, and Minnesota, refused outright. Rollins said that refusal has consequences. Starting next week, she announced, “the money stops moving” until those states comply. -- Rollins said the partial dataset already reviewed shows the program is bleeding taxpayer dollars on an astonishing scale. She pointed to 186,000 dead Americans still receiving benefits — and that’s just from the states that turned over their records. She told Newsmax the deeper the USDA digs, the more outrageous the findings become: EBT cards with balances over $10,000, cards untouched for years, and some issued to people who never existed. -- Rollins argued that Democrats spent years blocking basic oversight, even as abuse ran wild. The evidence, she suggested, speaks for itself. “We want families who truly need help to get it,” she said, “and we want the taxpayer protected.” That, in her view, means forcing transparency — even if blue states have to be dragged there. -- https://mxmnews.com/article/d8faf12b-279e-49d3-9e56-19935570f15c?no-data-no-money-blue-states-face-snap-freeze-for-blocking-audits
