Also known as Food Stamps, SNAP faced a loss of funding beginning in November because of the government shutdown. According to Politico, a Rhode Island federal judge ordered the Trump administration to use the emergency funds to provide benefits for the month.
“I do NOT want Americans to go hungry just because the Radical Democrats refuse to do the right thing and REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT,” President Donald Trump posted in response on Truth Social. “If we are given the appropriate legal direction by the Court, it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding.”
Trump did clarify, however, in another post that SNAP benefits will only return when Democrats agree to reopen the government. He emphasized that this is because the program increased by billions of dollars during the Biden administration “due to the fact that they were haphazardly handed to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need.”
Such waste is a reason not to provide the emergency funding, some believe.
James Fishback, CEO of the investment firm Azoria, posted on X a similar sentiment, but with a different angle. According to Fishback, 25% of Haitian immigrants, 45% of Afghan immigrants, and 52% of Senegalese immigrants are on SNAP. He wrote, “DC is redistributing wealth by stealing from productive Americans to subsidize foreigners and their way of life. That is unacceptable and America Last.”
Fishback spoke with Jenna Ellis on her morning show on American Family Radio (AFR) about a big lie that has been given to Americans — illegal immigration is bad, but U.S. citizens are supposed to tolerate legal immigration. According to him, the immigrants he listed are here “legally,” but they have been taking money from the American people.
“Whether they got legality through TPS (Temporary Protected Status) or through some fraud asylum claim, who cares?” states Fishback. “If you are in our country and you are taking jobs and taking government benefits and stealing from productive, hardworking Americans, you are illegal -- in my book -- because you are violating the covenant between America and her government, which is that we all have to pull our weight.”
Furthermore, he says it’s a problem when wealth from productive Americans is distributed to the unproductive. He also believes that Trump will do the right things by calling out the Democrats and not allowing them to fund these immigrants.
“You cannot come to our country and, one, refuse to assimilate and, two, be part of this great replacement of American workers, this great theft of our resources, of our wages, to fund your dereliction. It is wrong. It is un-American, and if this government shutdown forces a reckoning on it, so be it,” says Fishback.
Easy question to ask
As waste and wealth redistribution for the sake of government assistance are exposed, some say Congressional Republicans should ask one simple question: Why can’t you work?
Perhaps, it’s because like Democrats, many Republicans require the support of SNAP recipients, Fishback said.
The dependency problem is a government creation that has its roots with H-1B visa workers from India and China stealing American jobs, he said. Then unemployed Americans get no job call-backs because employers know they can pay someone to work for less.
“Of course, that American is going to have to depend on government benefits,” explains Fishback. “When you allow companies to import foreign workers, to fire Americans, to give us unemployment, eviction, addiction, divorce -- when you force us into that state of being, no wonder so many Americans are in this desperate place.”
Fishback also says it’s time for people to realize that some SNAP recipients are grifters who never want to work. This goes from both legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and Americans. He says, what was once a safety net has become a safety jacuzzi that has enabled a generation of laziness and complacency.
He then references “loving your fellow American.” If that is true, tell them the truth that they do not want to hear.
“They want to hear, ‘yes, we're going to keep supporting you. Yes, we're going to keep paying for your groceries even though you don't want to work.’ If you love your fellow American, you tell them the truth, and the truth is two-fold,” says Fishback. “One, you’ve got to get a job. But two, we have to revive a free-market capitalism that actually gives Americans a chance in their own country, that American jobs are for Americans.”
He emphasizes that these jobs should be only for Americans, not foreigners.
“We cannot make America great again with Indians or Chinese or Afghanis. With all due respect, we have to make America great again with Americans, and we can't do that when Americans are being replaced in their own country by foreign workers,” states Fishback.
Meanwhile, he says that there are two ways to solve this problem.
“The first is if we just ramp up mass deportations, there won't be the people to go use these benefits at Walmart or a Target or wherever they're using them,” says Fishback. “But the truth of the matter is that we have to codify this into law. Congressional Republicans need to get off the podcast, need to stop going on Fox News five times a week, and actually do something for once.”
Fishback points out that he is not just talking about Illegal immigrants being on SNAP. He is talking about those here legally, whether they are visa holder, green card resident, TPS, or refugee status, should not be on Snap. But that’s not all.
Recovering lost benefits
“If you're non-citizen, I don't care if you're legal or illegal or whatever, and you took SNAP benefits, we want restitution payments or you're getting deported too. Whatever you took from the government over the last 12 months, we want that money back. You have 14 days to pay it back or you are going to be deported,” states Fishback.
He questions why Congressman Byron Donalds (R-Florida), a Florida gubernatorial candidate, has not introduced legislation like this during his time in Congress.
It is time to hold those who are “America Last” accountable, especially those who are Republicans. He criticizes former President Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican,” calling it blasphemous. As he says, Americans are being erased and replaced in their own country when Republicans do nothing, support the H-1B program, and adhere to the globalist establishment elite.
“America is our birthright, and any Republican in the so-called Congress who does not see and recognize what time it is, they need to resign. President Trump is the only one who's actually working in D.C. right now,” concludes Fishback. “Let's make America great again, but we've got to do it with Americans, not with foreigners.”
