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J. D. Vance: “We know that there is a lot of fraud in the SNAP program.”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

Vance speaks before HIGH-STAKES anti-fraud roundtable

Published August 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 04:41

So for example, the SNAP program, which provides food resources to low income people, it quite literally feeds hungry moms and children in our country. Something that is very important and that I know every person at this table supports. We know that there is a lot of fraud in the SNAP program. We know that there are illegal aliens who benefit from the SNAP program, people who have no legal right to be in the country. We would like to Stop that. (04:41–04:44)

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“Prohibit high risk retailers such as some liquor stores and smoke shops from accepting taxpayer funded food stamp benefits.”
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“End the use of government issued pre populated forms to do automatic re enrollments into Medicaid.”
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“We would like to see stiffer penalties for fraudsters.”
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“Double the number of welfare fraud investigators so that more fraud and corruption cases can be aggressively investigated and prosecuted.”
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“We need a little bit more appropriated to expand this fraud effort.”
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