Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will pause federal funding to blue states that refuse to provide the information it requested on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aid recipients.

Rollins said during a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump the pause would be in effect as of next week. The fight between the administration and states over personal data goes back months.

“We have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states, until they comply, and they tell us and allow us to partner with them to root out this fraud and to protect these American taxpayers,” Rollins said.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Agriculture told NOTUS in a statement that states refusing to turn over the data will have anot

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