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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 2:20AM
Gov. Gavin Newsom and authorities AG Rob Bonta announced ineligible enactment against the Trump medication implicit the nonaccomplishment of SNAP benefits.
SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- California, on with implicit 20 different states, is suing the Trump medication implicit the alleged unlawful refusal to money SNAP benefits, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's office.
Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the suit Tuesday morning.
Food banks and pantries were already struggling aft national programme cuts this year, but present they're bracing for a tsunami of bare radical if a intermission successful national nutrient assistance to low-income radical kicks successful this weekend.
The governor's bureau says the Trump medication is putting millions of Americans astatine hazard of hunger by refusing to money nutrient assistance benefits, contempt the Department of Agriculture (USDA) having funds to proceed supporting the programme adjacent month.
More than 5 cardinal Californians basal to suffer captious entree to nutrient assistance.
"While Donald Trump parades astir the satellite trying to repair the economical harm he's done with his incompetence, he's denying nutrient to millions of Americans who volition spell bare adjacent month," said Newsom successful a statement. "It's cruel and speaks to his basal deficiency of humanity. He doesn't attraction astir the radical of this country, lone himself."
Newsom is fast-tracking $80 cardinal successful authorities funds to enactment nutrient banks and has deployed the California National Guard to assist.
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