Overview
- Vance, speaking at a Des Moines rally Tuesday, said the White House fraud task force found 186,000 dead people receiving SNAP and 355,000 duplicate payments.
- He told supporters he expects critics to say he wants to cut food aid and he quipped that benefits should be taken from dead people.
- He said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins relayed that some people with high‑end cars such as Lamborghinis are on SNAP, describing those cases as common‑sense outliers.
- President Trump created the anti‑fraud task force by executive order in March, and a White House fact sheet says it is reviewing housing aid, food assistance, medical care, and cash programs.
- The fact sheet also singled out California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado for weak oversight, while SNAP’s federal‑state setup and lagging death records can produce data mismatches that look like overpayments.