The Trump administration has threatened to withhold Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program advantages from sure states until they release sure data about the members.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a Cabinet assembly Tuesday that the states that may see advantages withheld are those that refuse to share data about the recipients, like names and immigration standing. This comes as a Republican senator has also proposed banning SNAP from getting used on fast meals.

President Donald Trump signed an government order in March permitting the federal authorities to have “unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State programs that receive federal funding.”

It claims the data will help to “root out fraud,” however 21 Democrat-led states have refused to offer up the data, including California, New York and Minnesota.

There have been 29 Republican-led states that have turned over the data. In retaliation, the administration has threatened to stop sending funds to the states that have refused.

Rollins said in the assembly, “So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states, until they comply and they tell us and allow us to partner with them to root out this fraud and to protect the American taxpayer.”

Nearly 42 million people in the U.S. obtain SNAP advantages to pay for his or her groceries. The recipients have already endured a lapse in SNAP advantages after the longest U.S. authorities shutdown from October to November.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on X: “Genuine question: Why is the Trump Administration so hellbent on people going hungry?”

This isn’t the first time states have pushed back against data sharing. Twenty-one states and Washington D.C. sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in July after the company requested for detailed data about the recipients.

At the time, California Attorney Genreal Rob Bonta said, “SNAP recipients provided this information to get help feeding their families not to be entered into a government surveillance database or be used as targets in the president’s inhumane immigration agenda.”

A federal decide in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction in October that blocks the Trump administration from withholding advantages. The Department of Agriculture can appeal the resolution, with a deadline of Dec. 15, however the decide has denied the request to pause the injunction until then.