“US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today directed the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) at the US Department of Agriculture to immediately clarify and enforce all rules restricting its beneficiaries to US citizens and legal residents only. This Secretarial directive enforces President Donald J Trump’s Executive Order of February 19th, 2025, ensuring taxpayer resources are not used to incentivize or support illegal immigration. ‘The days in which taxpayer dollars are used to subsidize illegal immigration are over,’ said Secretary Rollins,” says a Tuesday USDA press release.
At no point did the USDA even come close to providing any sort of estimate on how many illegal immigrants are currently receiving food stamp benefits or, more importantly, what they’re going to do to make sure they’re not haphazardly cutting off citizens with Hispanic surnames. That concern might however be misplaced as there’s a solid chance this directive is just more performative circlejerking for the MAGA base and few, if any, food stamps beneficiaries will lose them.