{"id":16246,"date":"2025-12-03T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/usda-threatens-to-withhold-snap-funding-from-democratic-states-over-data-demands\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:20:45","slug":"usda-threatens-to-withhold-snap-funding-from-democratic-states-over-data-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/usda-threatens-to-withhold-snap-funding-from-democratic-states-over-data-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA threatens to withhold SNAP funding from Democratic states over data demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is planning to block Democratic-led states from accessing billions of dollars in federal funding under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if they continue refusing to comply with the agency&rsquo;s demand for data about food stamp recipients, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5632152-usda-snap-funding-data-states\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is planning to block Democratic-led states from accessing billions of dollars in federal funding under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if they continue refusing to comply with the agency&rsquo;s demand for data about food stamp recipients, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}