SNAP funding could face a major shake-up at the end of September unless Congress passes a resolution to delay major changes included in the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
A new law introduced in the House this month would add more restrictions to what types of food SNAP recipients can buy with their monthly benefits.
"Do you have beer?" "Yes." "He's paying with the EBT card?" "Oh, yes." "If you put it as food, they don't know it's beer." "Uh-huh." Not only did we expose EBT benefits being used to buy drugs, like ‘kratom’, we also revealed the bodegas across New York City selling us beer with EBT cards. In Queens, we asked him to run the beer as "food." He agreed and we walked out with beer purchased using an EBT card. Federal law is clear: SNAP benefits are for eligible food items only under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and 7 CFR 271.2. Alcohol cannot legally be purchased with SNAP benefits. These NYC retailers who intentionally process alcohol as food are violating federal SNAP regulations, subject to disqualification from SNAP…
AI:James O'Keefe has once again pulled back the curtain on the lawlessness thriving in our urban centers, exposing a brazen scheme where New York City bodegas are intentionally circumventing federal law to sell alcohol using SNAP and EBT benefits. By instructing retailers to process beer transactions as "food" items to evade detection, these vendors are directly violating the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 and multiple state criminal statutes. This isn't just a matter of simple retail error; it is a systemic exploitation of regulatory loopholes that allows taxpayer-funded benefits intended for food security to be diverted into illegal alcohol sales. While the establishment media remains predictably silent about this blatant theft from…Open
AI:James O'Keefe and his team have released undercover footage capturing a retail clerk caught in the act of illegally using EBT benefits to purchase alcohol. Despite being confronted with direct evidence of the transaction, the clerk attempted to deny the wrongdoing, highlighting a recurring pattern of systemic fraud within local businesses. This investigation follows several recent exposés by O'Keefe regarding the exploitation of taxpayer-funded social safety nets and the widespread abuse of SNAP and EBT benefits for non-food items in urban areas.Open
Data: Economic Policy Institute ; Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios American taxpayers would pay about $2,358 each for President Trump's mass deportation push, according to a new calculator tool from the Economic Policy Institute. Why it matters: The estimate fuels debate over whether billions of federal dollars devoted to deportations could instead fund other public priorities such as food assistance, health care or housing. By the numbers: EPI estimates the $268.9 billion projected for deportations could alternatively fund more than 118 million additional SNAP recipients over the remaining 2.5 years of the Trump administration, based on National Priorities Project data. - Alternatively, nearly 12 million additional people could receive…
The stores, operated by Yellow Banana, closed after Save A Lot ended its operating agreement with the company, citing financial challenges that included a sharp decline in SNAP purchases.
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NPR wants to hear from people impacted by changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has declined significantly since new federal work requirements took effect in mid-2025, with millions fewer Americans receiving benefits, […] Source