On Thursday's broadcast of Newsmax TV's "Rob Schmitt Tonight," Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins discussed data on food stamps and said that data from blue states is "going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that's taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can't survive without it."

Rollins stated, "29 states, mostly the red states, responded with their data sets, February, March, April. … But here's the most unbelievable news I have really, just over the last few days: That 5,000 dead people, that was just one month, the number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check. Now, that is what we're really going to start clamping down on. Half a million are getting two. But here's the really stunning thing: This is just data from those 29 mostly red states. Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data, what we're going to find?"

She continued, "It's going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that's taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can't survive without it. And that's the next step here."