{"id":2599188,"date":"2026-05-05T19:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-186k-dead-people-found-collecting-snap-benefits\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:55:26","slug":"vance-says-186k-dead-people-found-collecting-snap-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-186k-dead-people-found-collecting-snap-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says 186k dead people found collecting SNAP benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-says-186k-dead-people-found-collecting-snap-benefits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2599188&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At a rally in Des Moines, Vice President JD Vance said that a fraud task force he leads has identified widespread misuse of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).He claimed it found about 186,000 deceased people receiving SNAP benefits and cited other issues, including a reported 355,000 recipients allegedly receiving double benefits. Vance also told the crowd that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins reported instances of people with luxury vehicles allegedly collecting SNAP. He <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >made jokes anticipating media criticism<\/a>, asserting it would be reasonable to stop benefits to dead recipients and arguing that people wealthy enough to afford a Lamborghini should not need SNAP.The remarks were made during an appearance for Rep. Zach Nunn.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"7658\">JD Vance<\/a> told a crowd at a rally in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iowa\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"468\">Iowa<\/a> on Tuesday that his fraud task force found 186,000 dead individuals collecting benefits from the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/snap\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1258\">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vance traveled to Des Moines to appear at an event for Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), a vulnerable member of the House GOP majority. 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Finding fraud in the federal government, it\u2019s kind of like fishing in a barrel with dynamite.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Vance said he is \u201cshocked every single day by the things\u201d the task force has uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrooke [Rollins] has found out that we\u2019ve got 355,000 people on SNAP benefits receiving double benefits, that we\u2019ve got 186,000 dead people getting SNAP benefits,\u201d Vance said, referring to the agriculture secretary. \u201c186,000 dead Americans getting food stamps right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance joked that the \u201cfake news media\u201d would misrepresent his remarks as wanting to \u201ctake away food stamps.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what they\u2019re going to say. I actually think that we should take food stamps away from dead people. I\u2019m guilty of that,\u201d Vance said to laughter and applause from the crowd. \u201cI think that\u2019s a reasonable thing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Vance also said Rollins informed him before the event that she had found \u201cthere are people who have Lamborghinis who currently receive SNAP benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4552317\/trump-300k-illegal-immigrants-kicked-off-social-security\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4552317\/trump-300k-illegal-immigrants-kicked-off-social-security\/\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS 300K ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS KICKED OFF SOCIAL SECURITY AND 100K OFF MEDICARE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a pretty conservative guy, but I would think that like 95% of the United States of America would agree that if you are wealthy enough to afford a Lamborghini, then you are wealthy enough to not receive SNAP benefits from the American people,\u201d said Vance. \u201cIs that common sense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SNAP is a government program aimed to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soda-companies-resist-maha-effort-to-cut-them-out-of-food-stamps\/\" title=\"Soda companies resist MAHA effort to cut them out of ... stamps\">low-income individuals afford food<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-kills-ban-on-snap-recipients-buying-soda-with-food-stamps\/\" title=\"House kills ban on ... recipients buying soda with ... stamps\">supplementing household grocery budgets<\/a>. It is administered through the Agriculture Department, and benefit levels are determined based on net income and household size, operating on the assumption that 30% of a household\u2019s net income is spent on food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance said his fraud task force found 186,000 dead SNAP recipients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4183,"featured_media":2599189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26125822747638.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3813,50738,5894,11892,55176],"class_list":["post-2599188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-immigration","tag-misinformation-2","tag-politics","tag-snap","tag-social-welfare"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26125822747638.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599192,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599188\/revisions\/2599192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}