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Agriculture secretary claims SNAP program is 'corrupt'

By Jude Joffe-Block
Published November 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM CST

In an appearance on Fox and Friends on Sunday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed SNAP is a "corrupt" program riddled with "massive fraud." But some of her claims need more context.

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Jude Joffe-Block
Jude Joffe-Block is a reporter at NPR covering how power, politics and influence intersect and how information circulates. Her beat includes the federal government's unprecedented efforts to link and aggregate data sets on people living in the United States.