Top Trump official moves to block illegal immigrants from receiving food stamps: 'Follow the law, full stop'

"U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today directed the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to immediately clarify and enforce all rules restricting its beneficiaries to U.S. citizens and legal residents only," the department said in a press release. 

The press release adds that the directive "enforces" Trump's executive order from February 19 aimed at "ensuring taxpayer resources are not used to incentivize or support illegal immigration."

"The days in which taxpayer dollars are used to subsidize illegal immigration are over," Agriculture Secretary Rollins said in a statement. 

"Today's directive affirms that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will follow the law-full stop."

"Bureaucratic blunders are leaving billions of dollars on the table as Americans are starved to keep up with the ever-growing $36 trillion debt," she told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

"SNAP plays an essential role in helping feed families. That's why we need to strengthen its integrity by holding states accountable for growing error rates, implementing a zero-tolerance policy, and snapping back overpayments."

Fox News Digital's Julia Johnson contributed to this report