The Trump administration will pause aid for Democrat-led states that don't provide the government with identifying information about SNAP recipients, such as immigration status, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Tuesday.

Why it matters: If the administration goes through with the threat, millions of Americans could lose their SNAP benefits, sometimes known as food stamps, just over a month after recipients were put in limbo during the longest-ever government shutdown.

Driving the news: Rollins said her department asked all states "to turn over their data" to the federal government in February so that USDA and state agencies could "root out" any fraud in the system. • Rollins said Republican-led states complied and those records helped the administration determine examples of

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