BALTIMORE — No data to detect fraud, no money to administer snap benefits or food stamps.

Governor Wes Moore suggests there’s more to the feds’ demand that the state hand over recipients’ birth dates, Social Security numbers and legal status than meets the eye.

“The problem is this is a manufactured ask that the federal government is doing,” said Moore, “We’re already cooperating with the federal government. We already make sure that we have very clear lines of transparency about our recipients, about where the need is and making sure that they get their legal authority on the need.”

The governor launched the second year of his “ENOUGH” initiative in Baltimore on Thursday---a program, which pre-dated President Trump’s second term, allowing the state to ask struggling communities how th

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