November 14, 2025 • 15 mins
Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is facing challenges with his plans getting passed that he campaigned on. Is there potential fraud in the SNAP program?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten or filling
in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto. Yeah, so nice to
be with you on a Friday. See Mark has to
deal with you Monday, or you have to deal with
Mark Marcus to deal with all of us. I listen
Monday through Thursday. When you're miserable on Monday Tuesday. You
can't wait for the week to get by Wednesday, like
is this over yet? Thursday? Or anticipating the weekend that
(00:22):
I come in and fill in from time to time
on a Friday, and I'm like the lucky grand parent
who gets the child in a good mood and then
has a child back when the diaper needs to be changed.
That's what I am on a Friday. Good to be
with you. Former TV news aker from here in New
York City, Ken Rosato reporting for duty. You'll probably best
remember me from twenty plus years I spent anchoring the
(00:43):
morning and midday show at Channel seven. I was a
Channel five before that, I did Channel fifty five. These days,
I'm on a streaming channel called on New Jersey ONNJ
dot com. I do a show Monday through Friday. There
just not today because I'm here happily. But and then
I also have a website. I have a website for
(01:04):
all you foodies called the Food Dude, so on New Jersey.
You can check out at onj dot com and the
food Dude is Thefooddude dot us for a free food website,
thousands of recipes from around the world straight to the
business part of it. We got a lot to talk
about today to wrap up the busy newsweek. In our
phone lines wide open eight hundred three two one zero
(01:25):
seven ten, So you hear a lot from police and officials,
not only in New York City but around the country
talking about how, hey, crime is down. Crime is down
here in Chicago, even though seven hundred people are arrested
this week at crime is down. You know what they
failed to mention is when you change the laws and
you no longer have certain things looked at as crime.
(01:46):
When you decide as a district attorney, you will not
prosecute these seventy percent of the laws. If people violate them,
we will not prosecute them. So you tell your police
don't even bother arresting people for those When you dumb
down people who are arrested for felonies, you dumb it
down to a misdemeanor. Sure, crime appears down when you
(02:06):
say that murder in some cases is an accident. You
know when things like that happen. Statistically speaking, things look
like they're up and up and everything is great and
crime is down. The reality is crime has not dropped.
Anybody who works for the police department here in New
York or anywhere around the country will tell you crime
is not down. These statistics are down. Can that's anecdotal. Yeah.
(02:29):
Talk to the cops I talk to on a regular basis.
I take calls on my show every day. I talk
to cops all the time. My dad was a cop.
I have a lot of cops in the family. Believe me,
crime is not down, and don't let the Democrats fool
you and tell you it is. And that's by the
way true in Democrat and Republican cities, but more so
in blue cities. Because you don't punish people, you let
(02:50):
there be a revolving door. They come in and out
of the system. Crime just keeps going up and up. Well,
Mayor Zoram wants to deploy social workers instead of police,
of course, to respond to nine to one one calls,
but Apparently the plan has already been operating on a
very small level in New York City. They've been testing
it quietly and it's been failing miserably. Published reports say
(03:12):
early results of a program called be Heard shows it
ain't working. Mom Donnie wants to take one point one
billion dollars, shifting it to the Department of Community Safety
for this send social workers plan. And apparently an audit
was done back in May by the city Controller and
they determined this thing is a failure. But yet we
all got suckered into it, right, We all voted for
(03:34):
Mom Donnie, thinking he's going to make things better. We
don't need police. We already have members of the NYPD leaving,
and just wait until he takes office and the NYPD
sees it. They don't get protection by this mayor that
if it comes down to it, that he's going to
turn his back on the NYPD. We hope it doesn't happen,
but based on what he has said of police in
(03:55):
the past, it's likely going to happen. You know, he
out now told us who he is and we just
laugh at his head.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Die.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
He's not a socials, he's not a communists. Come on,
you're overreacting. Can you conspiracy theorist? Sob No, he said it.
Why shouldn't we believe them? Apparently sixty percent of the
calls made under this plan, this be heard as it
is called, sixty percent are deemed ineligible in what they tested.
(04:23):
More than thirty five percent of the eligible calls from
mental health professionals never got a response. And for this,
Mam Donnie wants to spend over a billion dollars of
your tax payer money. Sadly, I think people are going
to get hurt or worse, and you'll see crime rising
all over the city. Speaking of crime, we had Mayor
to be Mam Donnie say this.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
And wh I speak to those officers on the beat,
I hear a frustration from them that we're asking them
to do more than just focus on serious crimes. We're
asking them to do the work of mental health professionals
and social workers, and that reliance on having them deal
with almost every failure of the social safet net is
making it impossible for them to tackle those crimes.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, that sounds great from a guy who's never held
a job in his life and who sits behind a
desk and pushes pencils around. Go out in the just
go out for a day with the NYPD and see
what they have to deal with, mentally unstable, people who
are stoned, people who were drunk. And then you expect
them to listen to reason and oh, let's sit down,
let's have a nice conversation. Meanwhile, they have weapons. They'll
(05:25):
pick up a broken bottle, they'll throw a stone, and
we're supposed to just think that'll be fine. You know,
someone's going to get hurt. Mayor to be Mamdani unfortunately,
and too many people were suckers and bought his whole line.
In the meantime, all the promises, all the goodies that
Mamdani promised, all these wonderful goodies, the free buses, the
free childcare, the free supermarkets. He was suggesting raising taxes
(05:50):
on the richest of New Yorkers, those who make a
million dollars or more, which in New York sounds like
a lot. If you lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that'd be
a lot. You live in New York and makes you
middle class. And this is what he said about it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know, I've said time and again that I believe
these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually
fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free. And I've
said that the two clear ways to do so raising
personal income taxes on the top one percent by two
percent and raising the corporate tax to match that of
New Jersey's corporate tax of eleven point five percent. Now,
if there are other ways to raise this money to
fund this agenda, the most important things that we fund
(06:23):
the agenda.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, part of the problem there's zuron is if you're
a multi millionaire or billionaire, like your family is. By
the way, where does your family live? Yeah, they live
here in New York. They also live in Uganda. I
bet you they pay their taxes in Uganda and not
in New York. I don't know. I could be totally wrong.
I might be totally wrong. I don't know. I'm conjuring
that up. I'm just saying I would bet somebody should
(06:47):
check into that. Where do you pay there? Where does
the family pay the taxes here in New York or
in Uganda? The problem is in the real world today,
if you're a multi millionaire or billionaire, you don't have
to call New York home anymore. You could call, you know,
walk Ashaw your home, pay the taxes there which you're
little to none, and still do business remotely. You don't
have to physically be located here anymore. You can fly
(07:08):
back and forth, not live here, and make a good
living and visit New York for the best of it
and not be here to pay the taxes. Governor Kathy
Hochel said of the buses, I cannot set forth a
plan right now that takes money out of a system
that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways. Translation.
We are billions and billions and billions in debt with
(07:29):
the MTA, and you want us to give away seven
hundred million to a billion dollars more in freebees. Ain't
gonna happen. In terms of funding, Mom, dammy shot back, the.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Most important thing is not how we fund it, but
that we fund it. I think these are the most
direct ways to do so. But any funding stream that
would fund these programs, that is one that we would welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So Zoran is saying, here's a stone, let me try
to get blood from it, because it's never been tried before.
Zoron right right seven ten wore the voice of New
York one eight hundred three to two won zero seven ten,
one eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
It's Ken rozottowin from Mark on a Friday. You know,
back about six years ago, fewer than fourteen million Americans
(08:10):
were on food stamps. We call them snap now, so
no one feels bad. Back in the day, you stood
in line, you were handed actual stamps in a book,
and you got to use those stamps in certain food
stores and they could only be used for certain kinds
of food. Well, there's more and more liberal hands got
involved in the process. The program was made as easy
as possible for people so they wouldn't feel embarrassed. And
(08:32):
that's okay. Look, there are certain people who desperately and
genuinely need assistance. And I think if you're like me,
you have a heart. You don't want to see anybody
ever be at need or want for food, and I would.
I would always offer somebody food. Anytime I've had anybody
beg me for money, I always say, listen, I'm not
going to give you money, but I'll give you food.
(08:52):
All too often they say I don't watch your food,
I want your money. I've had that told to me
right outside Channel seven studios a number of times, but
times people did take me up and I bought them food.
So anyway, stamps got replaced eventually by a debit card,
and instead of standing in line, the government just transfers
the money directly into the debit card account. Of course,
during the government shutdown, that all got paused. For the
(09:14):
most part, people got to choose whatever they want in
the food store. As of late well, since Joe Biden
took over as president, the number of SNAP recipients went
from fourteen million to over forty two million nationwide. Now
it wasn't just because the need was higher. A good
chunk of that spike came during the pandemic when the
Democrat controlled government urged people to get in on the program.
(09:38):
In fact, under Biden, SNAP benefits were drastically increased, eligibility
was drastically expanded, so of course people took advantage of it.
Biden used executive and legislative actions to do that, and
unlike President Trump, there were no work requirements, so all
you got to do is say I want SNAP and
you got it. That was it. The sad thing is
(09:59):
there are people who genuinely need food assistance, and this
is now costing US hundreds of billions of dollars and sadly,
millions more people glond onto the system at the time,
which caused more financial burden to taxpayers. Literally, one in
eight Americans now receive SNAP benefits. That money gets again
(10:20):
direct deposited into a debit card from the US government,
and now you get people used to it over not
just a month or two, or even a year or two,
but many years, so it becomes part of what they
rely upon. So where does the US money get that
money from. They don't just print it. It comes from
you and me. You and I work, and the money
we earned gets taxed, and from the taxes, those taxes
(10:42):
go to pay programs like that. Again, I'm not talking
about the mother who is alone the spouse left and
left them alone with children. I'm not talking about that.
Those people need this. That's fine, okay, I believe that's
what the program is for, to help them. But I'm
talking about if you are twenty one years old, you
are able bodied, and you choose not to work, or
(11:02):
you choose to work a job part time, and you
SNAP to pay for your food. If you're eighteen to
sixty four and can work, you should and under the
current rules, Trump is simply saying, if you are able
bodied an adult, you don't have dependence, and you are
between the ages of eighteen and sixty four, you must work,
volunteer or participate in training for about twenty hours a week.
(11:25):
That's it, in order to continue getting your benefits. And
what is the response. The response that a lot of
people offering a lot of hate for it, saying why
why seven ten wore the voice of New York Ken
Risotto win for Mark. It is Friday and speaking of SNAP,
that program is run under the Department of Agriculture, and
the person in charge of that department is a person
(11:45):
named Secretary Brook Rollins. Well, after Brooke Rollins got into
office in the beginning of the year, she did a
little research and Secretary Rollins, surprise surprise, found there is
an enormous amount of fraud in the SNAP program. With
just a little research, she found five thousand dead people
still receiving SNAP in some cases for years. Who's spending
(12:09):
that money? Aha? She also found at least half a
million people half a million people receiving SNAP benefits twice
under the same name, so they collected. They had two
different debit cards collecting money every month. She said, over
eighty percent of able bodied Americans on these benefits can work,
but choose not to, and that allows taxpayers to foot
(12:32):
the bill. Right, Why should they work if they could
sit back and collect the money. It's human nature. I
almost don't blame them. We're the stupid people allowing it
to happen. Well, apparently there's gonna be some big announcements
next week with a plan to fix all this. You're
gonna have a lot of angry people, but it's got
to be done. The party is over. Just remember when
more people get back to work, more tax dollars are
(12:53):
generated to help pay down the debt. And how would
you like to have two thousand bucks in your pocket
for doing absolutely not? Hmm. Sounds like a good segue,
doesn't it. President Trump says he plans on sending every
American a two thousand dollars dividend check from all the
extra revenues we got from tariffs. White House Press Secretary
of Caroline Levitt announced that on Wednesday. She said that
(13:14):
a team of economic advisors is looking into the logistics
right now how to do it? Did you to give
him a tax credit. Do you send him a check?
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson initially said the payout may just
be like a tax savings under Trump's One Big Beautiful
Bill legislation. But the President said, no, come on, Scott,
send him money, Send him money, loosen up the purse strings.
(13:36):
The President clarified that to suggest that checks might be
in the mail before you know it. And couldn't she
use two thousand bucks around the holidays. And if you
had ten members of your family, that's twenty grand coming
into your household. Everybody would get one, I guess, unless
I'm not sure if it's just specifically taxpayers or if
it's every member of the household. All the details to come,
but that would give a nice quick spikee to the economy.
(13:57):
And one last story here seven to ten. W you
know that swarmy smug SOB meaning son of a bumpkin
Congressman Eric Swalwell of California, the guy who was allegedly
having relations with Fang Fang, the Chinese spy or reports
now say that he's been hit with a federal criminal referral. Yep,
he and Letitia have something in common. The allegation is
(14:21):
that he has alleged mortgage and tax fraud related to
his purchase of a one point two million dollar home
in Washington that he claimed as his primary residence. Again,
this is just an allegation at this point. The problem
is it can't be his primary residence if he is
a congressman from California, because California must be his primary
(14:41):
residence to get elected to go serve in Washington, d C.
So what is it with the Democrats lying on mortgage
forms to get a discount on their mortgages, their taxes
and insurance. Lying about a home being primary residence when
it's not. That is a federal offense. You're lying at
federal documents. But once again, if this is true, swallwell
as saying, this is nothing more than political retribution, just
(15:03):
like what happened to Letitia James. The problem is people
like Key and Letitia never come forth and deny they
lied on the forms that you say it's political retribution.
If you committed a crime, whether there's political retribution or not,
you are the one responsible because you, in this case,
allegedly committed the crime. Seven ten WR The Voice of
(15:24):
New York. It is Friday. Ken Risotto in for Mark.
It's going to be partly cloudy today and if you
like temps in the low fifties then it's a good thing.
That's what you're going to get. Coming up in just
a little bit, we're going to have brand and digital
strategist Fisher about a new easy way to get through
the airport using your phone instead of a passport. We
want you to give us a call coming up next
(15:44):
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Now the Mark Simone Show on seven ten or filling
in for Mark. Here's Ken Rosatto. Yeah, so nice to
be with you on a Friday. See Mark has to
deal with you Monday, or you have to deal with
Mark Marcus to deal with all of us. I listen
Monday through Thursday. When you're miserable on Monday Tuesday. You
can't wait for the week to get by Wednesday, like
is this over yet? Thursday? Or anticipating the weekend that
(00:22):
I come in and fill in from time to time
on a Friday, and I'm like the lucky grand parent
who gets the child in a good mood and then
has a child back when the diaper needs to be changed.
That's what I am on a Friday. Good to be
with you. Former TV news aker from here in New
York City, Ken Rosato reporting for duty. You'll probably best
remember me from twenty plus years I spent anchoring the
(00:43):
morning and midday show at Channel seven. I was a
Channel five before that, I did Channel fifty five. These days,
I'm on a streaming channel called on New Jersey ONNJ
dot com. I do a show Monday through Friday. There
just not today because I'm here happily. But and then
I also have a website. I have a website for
(01:04):
all you foodies called the Food Dude, so on New Jersey.
You can check out at onj dot com and the
food Dude is Thefooddude dot us for a free food website,
thousands of recipes from around the world straight to the
business part of it. We got a lot to talk
about today to wrap up the busy newsweek. In our
phone lines wide open eight hundred three two one zero
(01:25):
seven ten, So you hear a lot from police and officials,
not only in New York City but around the country
talking about how, hey, crime is down. Crime is down
here in Chicago, even though seven hundred people are arrested
this week at crime is down. You know what they
failed to mention is when you change the laws and
you no longer have certain things looked at as crime.
(01:46):
When you decide as a district attorney, you will not
prosecute these seventy percent of the laws. If people violate them,
we will not prosecute them. So you tell your police
don't even bother arresting people for those When you dumb
down people who are arrested for felonies, you dumb it
down to a misdemeanor. Sure, crime appears down when you
(02:06):
say that murder in some cases is an accident. You
know when things like that happen. Statistically speaking, things look
like they're up and up and everything is great and
crime is down. The reality is crime has not dropped.
Anybody who works for the police department here in New
York or anywhere around the country will tell you crime
is not down. These statistics are down. Can that's anecdotal. Yeah.
(02:29):
Talk to the cops I talk to on a regular basis.
I take calls on my show every day. I talk
to cops all the time. My dad was a cop.
I have a lot of cops in the family. Believe me,
crime is not down, and don't let the Democrats fool
you and tell you it is. And that's by the
way true in Democrat and Republican cities, but more so
in blue cities. Because you don't punish people, you let
(02:50):
there be a revolving door. They come in and out
of the system. Crime just keeps going up and up. Well,
Mayor Zoram wants to deploy social workers instead of police,
of course, to respond to nine to one one calls,
but Apparently the plan has already been operating on a
very small level in New York City. They've been testing
it quietly and it's been failing miserably. Published reports say
(03:12):
early results of a program called be Heard shows it
ain't working. Mom Donnie wants to take one point one
billion dollars, shifting it to the Department of Community Safety
for this send social workers plan. And apparently an audit
was done back in May by the city Controller and
they determined this thing is a failure. But yet we
all got suckered into it, right, We all voted for
(03:34):
Mom Donnie, thinking he's going to make things better. We
don't need police. We already have members of the NYPD leaving,
and just wait until he takes office and the NYPD
sees it. They don't get protection by this mayor that
if it comes down to it, that he's going to
turn his back on the NYPD. We hope it doesn't happen,
but based on what he has said of police in
(03:55):
the past, it's likely going to happen. You know, he
out now told us who he is and we just
laugh at his head.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Die.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
He's not a socials, he's not a communists. Come on,
you're overreacting. Can you conspiracy theorist? Sob No, he said it.
Why shouldn't we believe them? Apparently sixty percent of the
calls made under this plan, this be heard as it
is called, sixty percent are deemed ineligible in what they tested.
(04:23):
More than thirty five percent of the eligible calls from
mental health professionals never got a response. And for this,
Mam Donnie wants to spend over a billion dollars of
your tax payer money. Sadly, I think people are going
to get hurt or worse, and you'll see crime rising
all over the city. Speaking of crime, we had Mayor
to be Mam Donnie say this.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Police have a critical role to play in creating public safety.
And wh I speak to those officers on the beat,
I hear a frustration from them that we're asking them
to do more than just focus on serious crimes. We're
asking them to do the work of mental health professionals
and social workers, and that reliance on having them deal
with almost every failure of the social safet net is
making it impossible for them to tackle those crimes.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, that sounds great from a guy who's never held
a job in his life and who sits behind a
desk and pushes pencils around. Go out in the just
go out for a day with the NYPD and see
what they have to deal with, mentally unstable, people who
are stoned, people who were drunk. And then you expect
them to listen to reason and oh, let's sit down,
let's have a nice conversation. Meanwhile, they have weapons. They'll
(05:25):
pick up a broken bottle, they'll throw a stone, and
we're supposed to just think that'll be fine. You know,
someone's going to get hurt. Mayor to be Mamdani unfortunately,
and too many people were suckers and bought his whole line.
In the meantime, all the promises, all the goodies that
Mamdani promised, all these wonderful goodies, the free buses, the
free childcare, the free supermarkets. He was suggesting raising taxes
(05:50):
on the richest of New Yorkers, those who make a
million dollars or more, which in New York sounds like
a lot. If you lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that'd be
a lot. You live in New York and makes you
middle class. And this is what he said about it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know, I've said time and again that I believe
these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually
fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free. And I've
said that the two clear ways to do so raising
personal income taxes on the top one percent by two
percent and raising the corporate tax to match that of
New Jersey's corporate tax of eleven point five percent. Now,
if there are other ways to raise this money to
fund this agenda, the most important things that we fund
(06:23):
the agenda.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, part of the problem there's zuron is if you're
a multi millionaire or billionaire, like your family is. By
the way, where does your family live? Yeah, they live
here in New York. They also live in Uganda. I
bet you they pay their taxes in Uganda and not
in New York. I don't know. I could be totally wrong.
I might be totally wrong. I don't know. I'm conjuring
that up. I'm just saying I would bet somebody should
(06:47):
check into that. Where do you pay there? Where does
the family pay the taxes here in New York or
in Uganda? The problem is in the real world today,
if you're a multi millionaire or billionaire, you don't have
to call New York home anymore. You could call, you know,
walk Ashaw your home, pay the taxes there which you're
little to none, and still do business remotely. You don't
have to physically be located here anymore. You can fly
(07:08):
back and forth, not live here, and make a good
living and visit New York for the best of it
and not be here to pay the taxes. Governor Kathy
Hochel said of the buses, I cannot set forth a
plan right now that takes money out of a system
that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways. Translation.
We are billions and billions and billions in debt with
(07:29):
the MTA, and you want us to give away seven
hundred million to a billion dollars more in freebees. Ain't
gonna happen. In terms of funding, Mom, dammy shot back, the.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Most important thing is not how we fund it, but
that we fund it. I think these are the most
direct ways to do so. But any funding stream that
would fund these programs, that is one that we would welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So Zoran is saying, here's a stone, let me try
to get blood from it, because it's never been tried before.
Zoron right right seven ten wore the voice of New
York one eight hundred three to two won zero seven ten,
one eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
It's Ken rozottowin from Mark on a Friday. You know,
back about six years ago, fewer than fourteen million Americans
(08:10):
were on food stamps. We call them snap now, so
no one feels bad. Back in the day, you stood
in line, you were handed actual stamps in a book,
and you got to use those stamps in certain food
stores and they could only be used for certain kinds
of food. Well, there's more and more liberal hands got
involved in the process. The program was made as easy
as possible for people so they wouldn't feel embarrassed. And
(08:32):
that's okay. Look, there are certain people who desperately and
genuinely need assistance. And I think if you're like me,
you have a heart. You don't want to see anybody
ever be at need or want for food, and I would.
I would always offer somebody food. Anytime I've had anybody
beg me for money, I always say, listen, I'm not
going to give you money, but I'll give you food.
(08:52):
All too often they say I don't watch your food,
I want your money. I've had that told to me
right outside Channel seven studios a number of times, but
times people did take me up and I bought them food.
So anyway, stamps got replaced eventually by a debit card,
and instead of standing in line, the government just transfers
the money directly into the debit card account. Of course,
during the government shutdown, that all got paused. For the
(09:14):
most part, people got to choose whatever they want in
the food store. As of late well, since Joe Biden
took over as president, the number of SNAP recipients went
from fourteen million to over forty two million nationwide. Now
it wasn't just because the need was higher. A good
chunk of that spike came during the pandemic when the
Democrat controlled government urged people to get in on the program.
(09:38):
In fact, under Biden, SNAP benefits were drastically increased, eligibility
was drastically expanded, so of course people took advantage of it.
Biden used executive and legislative actions to do that, and
unlike President Trump, there were no work requirements, so all
you got to do is say I want SNAP and
you got it. That was it. The sad thing is
(09:59):
there are people who genuinely need food assistance, and this
is now costing US hundreds of billions of dollars and sadly,
millions more people glond onto the system at the time,
which caused more financial burden to taxpayers. Literally, one in
eight Americans now receive SNAP benefits. That money gets again
(10:20):
direct deposited into a debit card from the US government,
and now you get people used to it over not
just a month or two, or even a year or two,
but many years, so it becomes part of what they
rely upon. So where does the US money get that
money from. They don't just print it. It comes from
you and me. You and I work, and the money
we earned gets taxed, and from the taxes, those taxes
(10:42):
go to pay programs like that. Again, I'm not talking
about the mother who is alone the spouse left and
left them alone with children. I'm not talking about that.
Those people need this. That's fine, okay, I believe that's
what the program is for, to help them. But I'm
talking about if you are twenty one years old, you
are able bodied, and you choose not to work, or
(11:02):
you choose to work a job part time, and you
SNAP to pay for your food. If you're eighteen to
sixty four and can work, you should and under the
current rules, Trump is simply saying, if you are able
bodied an adult, you don't have dependence, and you are
between the ages of eighteen and sixty four, you must work,
volunteer or participate in training for about twenty hours a week.
(11:25):
That's it, in order to continue getting your benefits. And
what is the response. The response that a lot of
people offering a lot of hate for it, saying why
why seven ten wore the voice of New York Ken
Risotto win for Mark. It is Friday and speaking of SNAP,
that program is run under the Department of Agriculture, and
the person in charge of that department is a person
(11:45):
named Secretary Brook Rollins. Well, after Brooke Rollins got into
office in the beginning of the year, she did a
little research and Secretary Rollins, surprise surprise, found there is
an enormous amount of fraud in the SNAP program. With
just a little research, she found five thousand dead people
still receiving SNAP in some cases for years. Who's spending
(12:09):
that money? Aha? She also found at least half a
million people half a million people receiving SNAP benefits twice
under the same name, so they collected. They had two
different debit cards collecting money every month. She said, over
eighty percent of able bodied Americans on these benefits can work,
but choose not to, and that allows taxpayers to foot
(12:32):
the bill. Right, Why should they work if they could
sit back and collect the money. It's human nature. I
almost don't blame them. We're the stupid people allowing it
to happen. Well, apparently there's gonna be some big announcements
next week with a plan to fix all this. You're
gonna have a lot of angry people, but it's got
to be done. The party is over. Just remember when
more people get back to work, more tax dollars are
(12:53):
generated to help pay down the debt. And how would
you like to have two thousand bucks in your pocket
for doing absolutely not? Hmm. Sounds like a good segue,
doesn't it. President Trump says he plans on sending every
American a two thousand dollars dividend check from all the
extra revenues we got from tariffs. White House Press Secretary
of Caroline Levitt announced that on Wednesday. She said that
(13:14):
a team of economic advisors is looking into the logistics
right now how to do it? Did you to give
him a tax credit. Do you send him a check?
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson initially said the payout may just
be like a tax savings under Trump's One Big Beautiful
Bill legislation. But the President said, no, come on, Scott,
send him money, Send him money, loosen up the purse strings.
(13:36):
The President clarified that to suggest that checks might be
in the mail before you know it. And couldn't she
use two thousand bucks around the holidays. And if you
had ten members of your family, that's twenty grand coming
into your household. Everybody would get one, I guess, unless
I'm not sure if it's just specifically taxpayers or if
it's every member of the household. All the details to come,
but that would give a nice quick spikee to the economy.
(13:57):
And one last story here seven to ten. W you
know that swarmy smug SOB meaning son of a bumpkin
Congressman Eric Swalwell of California, the guy who was allegedly
having relations with Fang Fang, the Chinese spy or reports
now say that he's been hit with a federal criminal referral. Yep,
he and Letitia have something in common. The allegation is
(14:21):
that he has alleged mortgage and tax fraud related to
his purchase of a one point two million dollar home
in Washington that he claimed as his primary residence. Again,
this is just an allegation at this point. The problem
is it can't be his primary residence if he is
a congressman from California, because California must be his primary
(14:41):
residence to get elected to go serve in Washington, d C.
So what is it with the Democrats lying on mortgage
forms to get a discount on their mortgages, their taxes
and insurance. Lying about a home being primary residence when
it's not. That is a federal offense. You're lying at
federal documents. But once again, if this is true, swallwell
as saying, this is nothing more than political retribution, just
(15:03):
like what happened to Letitia James. The problem is people
like Key and Letitia never come forth and deny they
lied on the forms that you say it's political retribution.
If you committed a crime, whether there's political retribution or not,
you are the one responsible because you, in this case,
allegedly committed the crime. Seven ten WR The Voice of
(15:24):
New York. It is Friday. Ken Risotto in for Mark.
It's going to be partly cloudy today and if you
like temps in the low fifties then it's a good thing.
That's what you're going to get. Coming up in just
a little bit, we're going to have brand and digital
strategist Fisher about a new easy way to get through
the airport using your phone instead of a passport. We
want you to give us a call coming up next
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