Rollins Pulls the Pin: SNAP Money Frozen Until Blue States Hand Over the Files
The data war just went kinetic — and the states hiding their rolls know exactly why.
They thought the shutdown would bury the bodies.
Instead, Rollins used it as the perfect fog-of-war to move.
Twenty-nine states opened their books.
Twenty-one slammed the vault shut — California, New York, Minnesota leading the blockade.
So Rollins cut the wire.
No data, no dollars.
The first real federal strike against a welfare system the Biden years fattened like a sacred cow, all while fraud metastasized in the shadows.
This wasn’t bureaucracy.
This was a signal flare to every governor: stop protecting ghost recipients, illegal enrollees, and the networks skimming billions from taxpayers.
The age of playing dumb is over.
The accountability era has a timestamp now — December 2025.
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AG Secy Rollins Drops the Hammer: No Funding for States Who Refuse to Share SNAP Data
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that the federal government will withhold SNAP administrative funding from states that refuse to provide detailed beneficiary data to the USDA. The goal, according to Rollins, is to combat what the Trump administration identifies as widespread waste, fraud, and abuse within the program—issues that emerged more visibly during the recent shutdown.
SNAP serves about 42 million Americans, with the federal government covering benefits and half of administrative costs. In early 2025, the USDA requested full enrollee data from all states for the first time. Twenty-nine states complied, but 21—mostly Democratic-led, including California, New York, and Minnesota—refused, citing privacy concerns and questioning whether Rollins has the legal authority to demand that data.
Rollins said funding will be cut off next week for noncompliant states until they hand over the information. Critics, including Democratic governors and major media outlets, argue the move is politically motivated, an overreach of federal authority, and risks harming vulnerable recipients. USDA officials dispute this, saying states that refuse to comply are shielding fraudulent recipients, including illegal immigrants and other ineligible individuals.
The article positions the crackdown as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to roll back SNAP expansions enacted under Biden and reform the program to ensure support goes only to eligible recipients. It also notes that major fraud cases—such as large-scale schemes uncovered in Minnesota—have increased public pressure for stronger oversight.
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FIELD INTEL
ICE Storm Reportedly Hits Minneapolis After Massive Somali Welfare Fraud Schemes Uncovered
Federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly descended on Minneapolis this week — the first major crackdown following revelations of sweeping welfare fraud tied to Minnesota’s Somali community.
Prosecutors have described the case as among the largest in U.S. social-services history: hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars allegedly stolen via bogus claims under programs meant to feed, house, or support low-income families.
Now, ICE is said to be targeting up to 500 undocumented Somalis linked to the fraudulent network, as part of a broader drive to deport individuals profiting from welfare scams.
Hundreds of Minnesota Gov’t Staffers Say Gov. Walz Hid Somali Fraud and Attacked Whistleblowers
More than 480 current employees of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) publicly accused Tim Walz of turning a blind eye to massive welfare-fraud warnings — and then retaliating against those who tried to expose it.
According to the whistleblowers, they notified state leadership early on about suspicious activity. Rather than investigate, Walz’s administration allegedly “systematically retaliated” — reassignments, silencing, suppression of audit findings, even dismantling oversight structures.
They claim the result was not oversight or reform — but cover-up. Their emergence now adds political weight to the federal investigations, raising questions about state-level accountability and complicity.
DHS Issues Rule to End Automatic Renewals for Work Permits
On October 30, 2025, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an interim final rule eliminating the automatic extension of work permits (Employment Authorization Documents, or EADs) for most noncitizens filing renewals.
Under the prior policy — originally expanded under the previous administration — timely-filed renewal applications would automatically extend existing work authorization for up to 540 days. That safety net is gone. Now renewal applicants must wait for full vetting and adjudication before receiving a new permit.
The rationale from DHS: the automatic extension bypassed full background checks and screening — a “security vulnerability.” The change is meant to tighten immigration controls and ensure only properly vetted individuals remain authorized to work.
MEDIA MOVES (MISFIRES)
Mic Drop: Scott Bessent Demolishes Media to Their Faces Over Narrative About Trump’s Health
White House Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent openly confronted mainstream outlets and slammed their coverage of President Donald J. Trump’s health — calling out their narrative distortion in front of the cameras. Read more
Pop Star Sabrina Carpenter Tells White House to Stop Using Her Music
Carpenter demanded that the White House remove her song “Juno” from an ICE-raid video, condemning the administration’s use of her music as part of what she called an “inhumane agenda. Read more
NYT Journos Just Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around Why Americans Love Cowboys
Columnists at The New York Times looked baffled at America’s enduring cowboy-culture appeal — underscoring how out-of-touch the legacy media remains with real American values. Read more
White House Media-Bias Tip-Line Goes Live — Targets Journalists for ‘Fake News’
The administration rolled out a public “tip-line” inviting Americans to report what it deems biased or false journalism — an aggressive power-move meant to intimidate legacy media. Read more
Classified Trump–Russia Call Conveniently Leaked — Blaze Media Says Their Prediction Came True
A “leaked” call between Trump envoys and Russian officials surfaced just days after commentator Jack Posobiec warned it would — another suspected intelligence-community blow to shape the Ukraine–Russia narrative. Read more
Watch who screams the loudest.
That’s where the rot runs deepest.
And as the freeze hits, you’ll see which states depended on fraud to balance their books — and which governors built their power on the bodies buried in the SNAP rolls.
The heat is coming.
Rollins just lit the furnace.
~ Scott 🇺🇸
PS: Side chatter inside the agencies says this is only Phase One.
If the data dump exposes what insiders expect, the next move won’t be financial — it’ll be federal.
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YES!! This is EXACTLY what I voted for!!
Thank you President Trump. It's amazing you have to do this, since the Republicans don't have the balls to do the right thing...other than showing up and blabbering.
https://www.hiddentruthsbysunny.com/p/goodbye-republican-party