H1: "Starving the People, Funding the Border: The $200B Betrayal"
Update: 2025-10-29
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“Follow the money — who pays, who benefits, and who’s left hungry.”
Tara opens with South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster responding to a crisis as SNAP support is threatened while Congress argues over a staggering $200 billion request to expand healthcare access for noncitizens. New investigative data — including an Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) review and other audits — reveal significant benefit use by noncitizen households: millions receiving food stamps and billions in SNAP payouts in 2022 alone. Tara explains how loosened fraud controls and block-grant passthroughs enabled benefit flows into noncitizen populations, and how those discoveries triggered political turmoil and accusations of systemic gaming. The episode also covers Trump’s proposed voluntary repatriation subsidy, recent job numbers, and the political theater in which Democrats call the shutdown a tactical “game.” Tara ties the revelations to broader themes: accountability, national priorities, and the real-world costs for poor Americans caught in the crossfire — closing with an eye on what policy fixes and enforcement might look like next.
Tara opens with South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster responding to a crisis as SNAP support is threatened while Congress argues over a staggering $200 billion request to expand healthcare access for noncitizens. New investigative data — including an Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) review and other audits — reveal significant benefit use by noncitizen households: millions receiving food stamps and billions in SNAP payouts in 2022 alone. Tara explains how loosened fraud controls and block-grant passthroughs enabled benefit flows into noncitizen populations, and how those discoveries triggered political turmoil and accusations of systemic gaming. The episode also covers Trump’s proposed voluntary repatriation subsidy, recent job numbers, and the political theater in which Democrats call the shutdown a tactical “game.” Tara ties the revelations to broader themes: accountability, national priorities, and the real-world costs for poor Americans caught in the crossfire — closing with an eye on what policy fixes and enforcement might look like next.
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