Last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins announced that she plans to force the millions of low-income recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, to reapply for the program.

In comments to Newsmax, Rollins claimed a reapplication process was needed to “make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through … food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”

The news comes just weeks after the Trump administration announced that, during the government shutdown, it would not provide SNAP benefits to those reliant on the program, citing a lack of funding. However, as a federal judge pointed out at the time, billions of dollars in an emergency reserve fund for the program were readily available, as well as funds from other programs that could be transferred to SNAP.