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During a roundtable meeting on Tuesday discussing supposed fraud in federal programs, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller falsely claimed that safety net programs do not require documentation of financial hardship from applicants.
The roundtable, which featured Republican state attorneys general and Vice President JD Vance, was ostensibly convened to discuss efforts to root out fraud in state-federal partnership programs. It comes as President Donald Trump has repeatedly peddled false or exaggerated claims of fraud to justify slashing social programs that millions of Americans rely on.
During that meeting, Miller alleged that safety net programs don’t require applicants to prove their financial hardships. Citing as a specific example the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as “food stamps,” Miller claimed such programs are “based on the honor system…on the idea that you can trust the average person, through their own morality, to abide by the rules.”
“The way most welfare works in most states and most places is we take your word for it. … If you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps,” Miller added.
“We don’t check, as a country, if you even have kids. You will just start getting the checks,” he went on.
The claim was such a blatant lie that videos of Miller’s remarks...
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