The U.S. Department of Agriculture is renewing threats to withhold Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding from Democrat-led states that refuse to provide data on who gets food stamps, including Minnesota.

During a cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollin said SNAP funding will stop as early as next week, and she specifically mentioned Minnesota, New York and California as impacted states. She said funds will be withheld “until they comply.”

More than 440,000 Minnesotans receive benefits through SNAP, which the Trump administration recently suspended during the federal government shutdown.

USDA claims it needs the names, dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers of SNAP recipients to stamp out stop waste, fraud and abuse i

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