PHOENIX – Arizona joined a multistate lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to prevent the Trump administration from suspending Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits during the government shutdown.

Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia signed onto the lawsuit, which was submitted to a District of Massachusetts federal court and lists the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Office of Management and Budget and those agencies’ leaders as defendants.

“Donald Trump is cutting off food assistance for nearly 900,000 Arizonans as we head into the month of Thanksgiving,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a press release. “I’m suing to stop him and protect the seniors, veterans, working families and their children all across Arizona who rely on the few hundred d

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