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Speaker 1: Attorney General Andrea Campbell with some strong words for the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration, saying it continues to evade responsibility to feed people.

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Speaker 1: This after the Department of Agriculture updated its guidance when

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Speaker 1: it comes to SNAP eligibility.

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Speaker 2: The guidance is inaccurate and it's illegal.

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Speaker 1: That's why Campbell is joining twenty one other attorneys general

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Speaker 1: and suing to stop the federal government from cutting off

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Speaker 1: SNAP benefits for thousands of lawful permanent residents.

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Speaker 2: Federal law is specific and says that refugees, assilies, humanitarian parolis,

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Speaker 2: and other vulnerable legal immigrants are eligible for SNAP benefits

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Speaker 2: as soon as they obtain their green cards and meet

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Speaker 2: standard program requirements.

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Speaker 1: She went on to say the administration doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: power to rewrite these rules just because they don't like them.

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Speaker 1: The new guidance also calls for fines for states that

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Speaker 1: don't comply. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio