Critics Quash Trump Cabinet Secretary's Joy Following Her 'Cruel' Comments

Critics Quash Trump Cabinet Secretary's Joy Following Her 'Cruel' Comments

Ben Blanchet

Wed, December 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM UTC

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday talked up efforts by Donald Trump’s administration to withhold food aid benefits from recipients in Democratic states.

Rollins told a Cabinet meeting that the administration would stop moving federal funds to the states starting next week unless the states provided recipients’ personal data to help “root out” fraud. In October, a federal judge granted blue states’ request for an injunction blocking such a demand.

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She proceeded to claim that former President Joe Biden “increased food stamp funding by 40%” during his reelection push last year, a claim that could be “outright false” or “misleading at best,” Snopes noted last month.

“So now as we continue to roll that back — so the partnership in Making America Healthy Again is also in food stamps ... but, again, just gratitude and joy in this work and so, so grateful to you,” said Rollins to Trump.

Critics on X swiftly interpreted Rollins’ comments as her delighting in blocking Americans from receiving food aid.

Lawmakers such as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) decried Rollins’ comments as “cruel” while others likened them to a line straight out of “Hunger Games.”

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