Certain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds could be withheld from several Democratic-led states, including New York, as soon as next week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a televised Cabinet meeting on Dec. 2.

It's the latest threat by the Trump administration to hold back SNAP funding as the administration continues its push to receive personal information about the program's recipients nationwide. The potentially withheld funds would not be the benefits themselves, only the funding sent to states to assist with administrative costs of the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) later clarified.

In response to Rollins' recent comments about withholding SNAP funds, Gov. Kathy Hochul said the following in a Dec. 2 X post : "Genuine question: W

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