Government Shutdown Fallout Reveals SNAP Welfare Fraud & Dem Party Infighting

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

SNAP (Food Stamp) Fraud Allegations
- the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is rife with fraud and abuse.
- Statistics cited:
  - 186,000 deceased individuals allegedly receiving benefits.
  - 500,000 people receiving duplicate payments.
  - Estimated fraud cost: $12 billion.
- Mentions criminal cases involving EBT card trafficking and bribery schemes.
- Suggests Democrats expanded SNAP under Biden by 40% for political gain.
Political Framing
- Democrats use welfare programs to “buy votes” and create dependency.
- Contrasts this with Trump-era policies promoting jobs and economic empowerment.
- Frames SNAP reform as a moral and fiscal necessity.
California CDL Scandal
- Reports that California DMV allegedly issued 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) illegally to foreign or undocumented drivers.
- Suggests this endangered public safety and displaced American workers.
- Criticizes Governor Gavin Newsom and California officials for downplaying the issue.
- Links the scandal to broader claims of Democratic prioritization of illegal immigrants over citizens.
Democratic Party Civil War
- An internal conflict is growing following the government shutdown.
- Progressive leaders (e.g., AOC) allegedly challenging Chuck Schumer’s leadership.
- The party is divided between moderates and radical leftists (socialists, Marxists).
- Leadership changes and primary challenges.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.1	There may be some good that actually came out of the government shut down.
0:10.8	Supplemental nutrition assistance program known as food stamps to everyday Americans,
0:16.7	but we change the name to make it more PC and call it SNAP benefits,
0:21.0	are now being exposed for being rife with massive amounts of fraud and abuse.
0:27.7	How do we know this?
0:29.3	The Agricultural Secretary, Brooke Rawlins, is now telling the world what they've found.
0:35.1	Rollins discussed the SNAP data.
0:37.1	The U.S. Department of Agriculture received from 29 states, mostly red states.
0:43.5	The secretary said that 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.
0:52.3	Let me say that again.
0:54.5	187,000 dead men and women and children in this country are receiving food stamps.
1:05.7	Now, that is what we're really going to start clamping down on, she went on to say.
1:11.1	Rollins also said a half a million people are receiving two snap payments.
1:18.5	But here's the really stunning thing.
1:20.5	This is just data from those 29 mostly red states, meaning there's even more fraud and abuse in liberal states.
1:31.4	I want you to hear more of what she had to say as she talked to Laura Ingram on Fox News Channel.
1:39.0	The abuses, the fraud, it's estimated to be $12 billion.
1:49.0	Seattle police just broke up a food stamp fraud ring, busting 18 people. They say we're buying and selling EBT cards, that's become all the rage.
1:53.0	Some even trading them for drugs, food stamps for fentanyl.
1:57.0	Lovely.
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