Gavin Newsom called out President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary over one of the consequences of the government shutdown: having to reapply for SNAP benefits.

Brooke Rollins “accidentally told the truth” during a NewsNation interview Wednesday, the California governor’s press office posted on X in response to a clip of the USDA chief being asked about the new requirement to reapply.

Rollins, 53, claimed that she had been looking at some pre-shutdown data that was “staggering.”

“186,000 dead people receiving benefits. 500,000 Americans receiving benefits two times, so double what they should be receiving. We’ve arrested more than 120 people for SNAP fraud,” she claimed. “And that’s just from the states that sent their data in. That doesn’t include most of the blue states where we

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