Tish James SNAP lawfare hurts New Yorkers

Moving to protect lawbreakers, not taxpayers, state Attorney General Tish James is again suing the Trump administration, this time to block it from getting the names of illegal aliens getting SNAP benefits, a/k/a food stamps.

States administer the program, signing up SNAP beneficiaries, sending out the EBT cards (loaded with federal-taxpayer cash) — and supposedly policing eligibility . . . except many don’t bother.

So SNAP fraud is over $10 billion a year and rising, and Team Trump wants to crack down — particularly on border-jumpers who are limited to at most one year of benefits if the Biden crew granted a temporary OK to enter the interior.

Anyone illegally collecting SNAP is stealing: States should be lining up to help the feds find and (where appropriate) deport these crooks. 

But James, eager to counter everything Trump, insists the feds’ request for SNAP data is simply more of the prez’s “cruel and chaotic” immigration agenda — and “unacceptable” (a favorite Tishism). 

Hmmm. Surely the truly chaotic policy was waving in millions of unvetted migrants, while springing violent-criminal “asylum seekers” from jail to let them kill Americans is the real cruelty. 

And handing out anti-poverty cash to people who don’t qualify for it should be grossly unacceptable. 

This suit is just the latest in James’ long history of “performative” litigation, almost always losing.

Heck, in half a year she’s entangled New Yorkers in 30 politicized lawsuits against the Trump team.  

She sued to stop the president from dismantling the Department of Education (and lost); she sued to prevent him from firing federal workers (and lost); she sued to keep DOGE from accessing Social Security data (and is losing).  

New York is among the worst states in administering SNAP; James could go after the tens of millions of dollars in organized food-stamp fraud.  

But that wouldn’t win her the liberal-media spotlight, so state taxpayers get to underwrite yet another losing lawsuit. 

New York sure could use an AG who doesn’t just showboat for the national stage. How about working for the people for once, General James?