Is U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins trying to starve people into submission? It seems so, and she is dead wrong to threaten to cut off federal SNAP funding to states that refuse to comply with her unreasonable demands to turn over sensitive program data, including New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul is correct in telling Rollins to get lost in asking: “Why is the Trump administration so hellbent on people going hungry?”

USDA and Uncle Sam didn’t have the authority to deny Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (what used to be called food stamps) during the shutdown and don’t have the authority to do so now.

As with many of the Trump administration’s other efforts to strong-arm local, state and federal officials, it’s couching this in the language of fraud, insinuating that

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