WASHINGTON — A Minnesota member of the House Agriculture Committee, Angie Craig, a Democrat, has lost patience with Trump efforts to deny federal nutritional assistance to Minnesota and other Democrat-controlled states. Craig’s ire was heightened when Trump’s agriculture secretary demanded states turn over the personal data on SNAP receipients or lose federal funds. The ultimatum was from Trump’s agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins. Craig accused Rollins of “weaponizing hunger”:
“Her disregard for the law and willingness to lie through her teeth comes from the very top. The Trump administration is as corrupt as it is lawless, and I will not sit silently as she carries out the president’s campaign against Americans struggling to afford food in part because of this president’s tariffs and disastrous economic policies.”
Craig is a leading candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retirement of Tina Smith
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