[Regnum] Vice President J.D. Vance told reporters that there are 186,000 food aid recipients in the United States.
"There are 186,000 dead people on welfare, and dead Americans on food stamps," the politician said, adding that 335,000 people are receiving double benefits.
At the same time, Vance noted that he believes it is necessary to take “food stamps from dead people.”
According to the vice president, the recipients of the benefits also include owners of luxury Lamborghini cars.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that "poverty at every turn" is observed throughout the United States outside of economic centers.
At the end of December 2024, Bloomberg reported that the number of homeless people in the country had reached its highest level on record. According to the agency, 771,480 people in the United States experienced homelessness overnight in January 2024. This was 18% more than the number recorded in 2023. Furthermore, the number of homeless families with children increased sharply in 2024: a 39% year-over-year increase (to 259,473).
In August 2024, The New York Times reported that San Francisco authorities, in an effort to combat the growing number of homeless people on the streets, began issuing one-way tickets to them. City Hall banned these people from sleeping on sidewalks. However, police were authorized to issue tickets to those lying, sitting, or pitching tents in pedestrian areas.