ST.PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, with 22 other state attorneys general, says President Trump has violated the law in cutting off federal SNAP nutritional aid. Ellison used the word “cruel” for Trump in letting people go hungry in his battle with Congress to curtail healthcare and cut taxes for rich people. Said Ellison: “It is hard to be shocked by the cruelty and illegality of the Trump administration anymore, yet I am shocked that Donald Trump is deliberately allowing 440,000 Minnesotans to go hungry.” Nationally 42 million Americans utilize SNAP assistance to buy groceries. Also: Farmers rely on income selling their agricultural products into the grocery supply chain. SNAP assistance, which averages $185 per recipient per month, ends this weekend because of Trump intransigence over the federal budget. Ellison said that Trump has the authority to allocate billions of dollars appropriated by Congress as a rainy-day fund to keep SNAP afloat.
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Ellison. Attorney general since 2019. A Democrat. Earlier in U.S. Congress.
Multi-state action
Attorneys general from these states, all Democrats, signed on to the lawsuit: Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. These Republican attorneys general also joined: Kansas, Kentucky, Pennsylvania.