A coalition of states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Trump administration effort to impose certain conditions on billions of dollars for key federal nutrition programs from the Department of Agriculture.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by 20 states and the District of Columbia, argues the USDA has angled to put in place vague conditions on programs and grants, including those responsible for providing assistance to women, children and low-income Americans.
“USDA has now thrown unconstitutional and unlawful roadblocks between the programs created by Congress and the States that rely on them,” the lawsuit states.
