Overview
- The agency set a Dec. 8 deadline for states to provide recipient names and immigration status or face loss of federal administrative funding.
- USDA says 28 states and Guam have complied with the request, while 22 states and Washington, D.C., filed suit to stop it.
- A federal judge in San Francisco temporarily barred the administration from collecting the data from the suing jurisdictions.
- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins cites preliminary figures of 186,000 deceased recipients and 500,000 duplicate enrollments to justify the push, and the department says only administrative funds are at issue.
- New York’s attorney general, joined by 21 counterparts, separately sued USDA over an October memo they say would exclude refugees and asylees from SNAP, part of broader changes that the CBO estimates cut $187 billion through 2034.