Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently made it clear that, like other agencies operating under the Trump administration, hers is laser focused on rooting out fraud.
And a big part of that, she explained, involves SNAP benefits, or food stamps, which are still being handed out to an untold number of Americans who are clearly abusing the taxpayer-funded assistance program.
The Washington Times provided this report:
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who hasn’t identified the state, said scrutiny of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, has uncovered thousands of people receiving benefits in a single state who are also driving Bentleys and Teslas.
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The stunning car inventory was uncovered by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative think tank, using state government data provided to the USDA.
Researchers at the foundation analyzed 2023 food stamp data from an anonymous state to determine whether recipients met residency requirements and to examine other program integrity data.
They also searched recipient data for luxury vehicle purchases, Hayden Dublois, one of the report’s authors, told The Washington Times.
The Foundation for Government Accountability analysis found that 14,000 luxury vehicles were linked to food stamp enrollees.
Rollins also shared her update on X, highlighting the selection of high-end automobiles some of the unnamed state’s SNAP recipients have been driving:
In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES!
🚗 3 Bentleys
🚗 3 Ferraris
🚗 11 Lamborghinis
🚗 59 Maseratis
🚗 141 Porsches
🚗 244 Alfa Romeos
🚗 306 Land Rovers
🚗 2,098 TeslasAnd this is just in ONE STATE. We need to… pic.twitter.com/6ou5hVAl99
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) April 28, 2026
Many other shared their own take on the new revelations:
Imagine driving your Ferrari to go buy groceries with food stamps
Well a policy paper cited by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says 14,000+ food stamp enrollees owned numerous luxury vehicles
Now the Trump administration is demanding states turn over SNAP records to investigate…
— Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ (@pelositracker) April 28, 2026
Here’s the full text from the post above:
Imagine driving your Ferrari to go buy groceries with food stamps
Well a policy paper cited by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says 14,000+ food stamp enrollees owned numerous luxury vehicles
Now the Trump administration is demanding states turn over SNAP records to investigate fraud, and some states are suing to stop it
The cars included:
• 3 Ferraris
• 11 Lamborghinis
• 141 Porsches
• 59 Maseratis
• 2,098 TeslasThe same analysis found more than 1 in 5 enrollees had no successful identity match at the address on their application
Had someone drive their Corvette through the front door of an NGO I worked at while collecting thousands of assistance per year and I couldn't do anything about it because they qualified income vs asset based. That's when I lost faith in the system and left.
— Jaded government observer. (@Dansnapd) April 29, 2026
Here’s what the Post Millennial had to add:
Rollins questioned what the results would be from Democrat-led states, given that those statistics were from an unnamed Republican-led state. “The blue states are suing us. They don’t want to share the data. And can you imagine, this was a red state where there is actually some taxpayer accountability? Imagine what’s happening in the blue states.”
Rollins elaborated in a post to X, stating that it was 14,000 individuals on food stamps who had been driving luxury vehicles. In addition to Teslas and Alfa Romeos, there were also three people driving Bentleys, three driving Ferraris, 11 driving Lamborghinis, 59 driving Maseratis, and 306 driving Land Rovers.
“And this is just in ONE STATE. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system,” Rollins wrote. “These individuals are taking advantage of the American taxpayer. And together with VP’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this ends NOW. 4.3 million Americans have been moved off of SNAP — but more work to be done,” she added.
Here’s what Rollins had to say a few months ago about what the Trump administration would be doing to reform the SNAP program:
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