CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS/AP) – NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson is taking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to court, accusing the agency of illegally withholding more than $230 million in monthly food assistance for 1.4 million North Carolinians.

“Nearly 600,000 children in our state could be without food in a few days because USDA is playing an illegal game of shutdown politics,” Jackson said in a released statement. “They have emergency money to help feed children during this shutdown, and they’re refusing to spend it. I warned them last week that I would take them to court if they tried to hurt our kids, and today that’s what we’re doing.”

This marks the first time that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits could be delayed during a government shutdown.

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