Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday morning announced moves to protect food benefits that California has paid out after the U.S. Department of Agriculture called on states over the weekend to halt and unwind payments.

The filing for a temporary restraining order against the federal government, joined by 23 attorneys general and three governors, comes as the USDA told states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025” during the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.

“The whiplash the president and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins have given Americans in recent weeks, the steps they’ve taken to prevent vulnerable families from putting food on the table, are unnecessary, unconscionable and unlawful,” Bonta said. “We refuse to stand

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