Matt Walsh: “We need drug testing and weight testing for anyone receiving SNAP”
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From the October 29, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): The ongoing government shutdown has finally drawn attention to the scale of this fraud, and it is astronomical. It has exposed a vast network of criminal activity that needs to be shut down. Just for starters, as the attorney Mike Davis has pointed out, it's illegal under federal law to provide financial assistant assistance to illegal aliens. It's also illegal to rob stores and then brag about it on TikTok. At a minimum, we could start there. Arrest these criminals, prosecute the state officials who are paying out benefits to illegal aliens, who, by the way, typically receive Medicaid funding as well, and then also other welfare benefits.
And then once we're done with that, we need drug testing and weight testing for anyone receiving SNAP. We need a system that does not subsidize the grocery bills of 45 million people for the indefinite future with no time limit or restriction.
And beyond that point, if the food stamp program is going to continue to exist at all, which I'm not convinced it should, it needs to have standards, strict standards. It needs to have a reason to exist. Someone needs to be able to explain in a coherent fashion why the spending is necessary. Democrats have had several days to give us an explanation, and they failed to do it. In fact, they've essentially admitted it's a shell game, and it's rife with fraud. They've admitted that they're just redistributing money or creating economic activity, as Tim Walz put it.
And for the benefit of every taxpayer and the millions of obese profoundly ungrateful people they're feeding, we should end this particular economic activity. And in its place, we should encourage food stamp recipients to engage in some actual activity, like, you know, getting a job, or going for a walk around the block. Hold them to some standards. That'll be a big adjustment, no doubt, but one TikTok video and Tim Walz tweet at a time, Democrats, of all people, are making a very compelling case that it's a change we need to make.