Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about SNAP and claims of 186,000 dead people on the rolls.

There's a claim that's been floating around for a while, and it was recently, oddly repeated by Vance,

and it prompted a question from a Republican.

Quote, Belle, I actually really appreciate you answering the guy who made the sandwich

joke.

I assume he's a Republican like me, and we just can't get straight answers from our side of

the aisle. Nobody wants to contradict Trump. So I've got a question for you that's been driving me

nuts. Vance just said 186,000 dead people were still on snap. I totally believe there's fraud in a government program,

but I don't believe that it's the exact same number as last year. Them using the same number for two

years makes me doubt the whole claim. So then I looked, and they won't release the report. So do your thing. Are there dead people

on SNAP or not? Is it BS? Why does the number match? Okay. Last question first. Why do

the numbers match? Both Vance and Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rawlins, were probably both citing the same report. Vance is just repeating a claim from last year. Why, he seems to be implying that the administration knows about this giant problem and didn't fix it in all this time is beyond me.

The other two questions.

Are there dead people on the snap rolls?

Almost certainly.

In fact, I'd say they're probably about twice as many as claimed.

Is it BS?

Also, almost certainly. Okay, we're going to break out some math. There are roughly 42 million people on SNAP. That's a huge number.

I'm going to say that so many people needing food assistance is commentary on how much the

working class get trampled on in this country. But beyond that, 42 million is a huge number

and a huge sample size. A lot of things that you find in the general population will be true among SNAP recipients.

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