Do what I say, no matter how extreme, or I'll pull critical funding from your state.
That's right: Donald Trump is once again trying to weaponize essential federal funding as a political bargaining chip.
This time, he's holding billions of dollars in USDA funding hostage, harming the millions of families and children who rely on these programs for food assistance.
Trump has tried this strategy again and again, and again and again lost to us in court. It was illegal then and it still is now — so once again, I'm taking this administration to court.
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This is all part of the same losing strategy Trump's been running since he returned to the White House last year: He's illegally using congressionally-approved funding to coerce and force states like California to comply with his vague, hateful, and unrelated policies on everything from immigration to so-called gender ideology, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Bottom line: The President is using critical funds as leverage for unpopular policies on his extreme, political to-do list.
In this case, the funding we're talking about covers more than 30 million children who participate in school lunch programs — that's more than one in three kids in America. In California alone, it covers over $2 billion in child nutrition funding, and billions more for SNAP and WIC services.
All of it is now at risk because of a partisan political checklist.
But Trump doesn't have the legal authority to attach these conditions to this funding.
I've repeatedly challenged this administration's unlawful attempts to impose illegal conditions on unrelated grant funding — and I've repeatedly won, too.
So I'm co-leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general in suing the USDA to protect this critical funding and block Trump's outrageous and illegal conditions.
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