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One Way To Cut The Costs Of The SNAP Program

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As I have previously stated numerous time, the federal budget is getting out of hand. We need to find ways to cut the spending. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has a suggestion.

On Sunday, The Daily Caller reported:

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend” thousands of illegal migrants have been taken off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and that there will be drastic reform to ensure those who are truly vulnerable receive benefits.

Concerns about maintaining SNAP benefits began in October 2025 as the government shutdown stretched out. Notably, a handful of Democrats sued the Trump administration to use a contingency fund to continue the food aid. Highlighting how the argument over the benefits shed light on who is receiving SNAP, Rollins was asked to discuss reports of illegal immigrants being eligible for SNAP.

“There’s been a lot of miscommunication out there on the program, but this is one of the first things we did when I walked in. Day One of USDA, February 13th, is we sent letters to every governor in America being very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP. Zero, zero, zero,” Rollins said. “We asked every state for the first time in history — and this was in February — to send us their data and let us, with DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] and a war room, actually start going through this data to better understand how this explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden. We increased almost 40% on this program in just a couple of years under the Biden administration.”

Illegal immigration was one of the reasons for the increased enrollment in the SNAP Program, but another cause was the inflation caused by the Biden administration’s energy and economic policies.

The article concludes:

According to a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) memo obtained in September 2025 by the Daily Caller News Foundation, federal officials were directed to scrutinize and weed out migrant applicants deemed more likely to become dependent on government services and programs.

While data on illegal migrants and SNAP usage is limited, USDA data from 2022 shows the program provided benefits to 1.465 million noncitizens, with an additional 2.2 million children living with noncitizens also receiving SNAP benefits, according to the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC). Data pulled by EPIC shows California led the nation in this regard, providing 273,000 food stamps to noncitizens in fiscal year 2022, followed by Florida with 238,000, and New York with 218,000.

The Impact Of The Tariffs

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On Sunday, Fox Business posted an article about the growth of manufacturing in America.

The article reports:

While some headlines fret over a weak jobs report, Marlin Steel CEO Drew Greenblatt sees something else entirely — a once-in-a-generation boom in American manufacturing that the media is missing.

“This is a re-industrialization of America. This is a fabulous, optimistic time,” Greenblatt told Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday.

“[And] the mainstream media is missing what’s happening. It’s such an optimistic, good time for a factory worker, and these are good jobs… we need more of these jobs in our country,” he continued, tying the outcomes to President Donald Trump’s tariff structure, which he sees as reversing the long-standing trend of foreign dumping and offshoring.

Greenblatt expects overseas companies to start building inside the U.S. — a shift already underway, he argued.

“We’re having a new opportunity for factories in Germany, factory owners in Japan and England, they’re saying, ‘You know what? We’ve got to rethink this. We have high taxes where we are. We have very expensive energy where we are. And now, when we ship to our biggest client in the world, America, there’s this new 15% tariff, so this is crazy. 

“We’re not going to build in Europe anymore. We’re not going to build it in Japan anymore. We’re going to put that factory in America,’ and, when they do that, they’re going to hire local American workers,” he said. 

So why would companies that have manufacturing facilities in other countries relocate to America? Some of the things a manufacturing company looks for in a location are low taxes, cheap energy, reliable energy, and a relatively skilled workforce. A company is willing to pay a reasonable wage if the tax policies remain friendly and the energy remains cheap and reliable. As the tariffs go into effect, I believe we will see a boom in American manufacturing.