Trump Administration Threatens To Cut SNAP Funding For Some ‘Blue States’


Topline

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Trump administration will revoke food stamp funding for 21 “blue states” that haven’t complied with the agency’s request for SNAP program data she said it needs to identify “fraud.”

Key Facts

The Trump administration “will begin to stop moving federal funding into those states” next week “until they comply, Rollins said during a cabinet meeting Tuesday.

California, New York and Minnesota are among the states that haven’t provided the data, while 29 “red states” have complied, Rollins said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.



Sara Dorn, Forbes Staff