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On Jan. 27, 2025, a claim that U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end food stamps and federal cash assistance made its rounds on the internet. One X post, which gained more than 215,500 views as of this writing, featured a video of someone saying:
What are we going to do? What are y'all going to do? President Trump just signed an executive order for no more food stamps and cash assistance. How people finna live? That's on food stamp assistance? Why would President Trump sign this executive order for people to not get no food stamps and no more cash assistance?
(X user @JebraFaushay)
TikTok user @krystalsohipapate first posted the video on Jan. 25, 2025, and that post received more than 2.2 million views and 50,200 likes, as of this writing.
Users flooded both posts with comments that indicated they believed the claim that Trump signed such an executive order.
However, out of the more than 30 executive orders Trump signed in the first days of his second presidential term, there was no evidence any of them ended federal food stamps or cash assistance programs.
The X account that posted the video said "Mostly satire" in its bio, although the original TikTok did not explicitly state it was satire.
While there has been speculation as to whether Trump allies want to make cuts to the federal food stamp program, we have not substantiated these claims. The specific claim in this video, however — that Trump signed an executive order to end food stamps and cash assistance — is false.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that call their output humorous or satirical.
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