Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins conducts a news conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., in the U.S. Capitol on the government shutdown on Friday, October 31, 2025. <\/p>\n
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins<\/a> on Tuesday threatened to cut off federal funding to Democratic-leaning states over their alleged refusal to share SNAP<\/a> program data with the Trump<\/a> administration.<\/p>\n The administration “will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states” starting next week “until they comply,” Rollins told President Donald Trump<\/a> during a Cabinet meeting<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n Rollins said her department needs the state-by-state data on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps, “to root out this fraud and to protect the American taxpayer.”<\/p>\n The secretary said the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February had asked all 50 states “for the first time to turn over their data to the federal government.”<\/p>\n She said 29 “red states” complied, but 21 “blue states continue to say no.”<\/p>\n The noncompliant states include California, New York and Minnesota, Rollins said. The governors’ offices for each state did not immediately respond to CNBC’s requests for comment.<\/p>\n A USDA spokesperson later specified in a statement to CNBC, “28 States and Guam joined us in this fight; but states like California, New York, and Minnesota, among 19 other blue States, keep fighting us.”<\/p>\n The department had “established a SNAP integrity team” to analyze state data and “end indiscriminate welfare fraud,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n “We have sent Democrat States yet another request for data, and if they fail to comply, they will be provided with formal warning that USDA will pull their administrative funds.”<\/p>\n