RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — As North Carolinians suffer from the impact of the government shutdown, including the loss of SNAP benefits, the state's attorney general filed a lawsuit last week against the Trump administration.

CBS 17 previously reported that the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture accused the federal government of purposely keeping $230 million in food assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which would go toward feeding 1.4 million North Carolina residents.

“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,” North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson said in a statement in October. “They have emergency money to help feed children during this shutdown, a

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