Online commentators are tearing into White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's latest comments on welfare and food stamps as an obvious lie.
"The way most welfare works in most states and most places is we take your word for it," Miller said on Thursday. "If you file a piece of paper, and you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps. We don't check."
The reactions called out Miller's explanation of welfare and food stamps. Journalist Jamie Satterfield described it as a "bald faced lie" in a post on X.
"You can't walk into a government agency and walk out with food stamps by simply saying your kids are hungry," Satterfield wrote. "It should be that way, but it's not. And if Miller doesn't know that, he shouldn't be spewing this nonsense."
"Not a single word of this is true," wrote Capitol Hill journalist Julian Andreone.
Writer Jared Ryan Sears summed up Miller's comments as "ridiculous" in his reaction.
"Every government program requires extensive amount of documentation to get anything," Sears wrote. "All this administration does is lie, and somehow millions of Americans continue to believe them."
"He lies so easily, doesn't he?" asked tennis icon turned commentator Martina Navratilova.
Missouri Democratic congressional candidate Fred Wellman also called Miller's comments a "bald-faced lie" in his post.
"These programs don't just hand out money. They hate people that struggle," Wellman wrote. "They hate people who aren't rich."
Miller: 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. We don't check if you even have kids. You will just start getting the checks. pic.twitter.com/oL8DxMN5RT
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