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One of the most sinister thing the Trump administration and DOGE are doing is defacto trying to create a national registry in the U.S. without really making it a political question of whether or not the government should know everything about the population.

Food assistance was the initial scope of the Aadhaar biometric system in India which ended up being mandated for everything from vaccine records to banking.

USDA wants states to share sensitive food stamp data:
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5389952/usda-snap-doge-data-immigration