Trump threatened Colorado funding as ‘punishment’ over Tina Peters, judge finds

Trump threatened Colorado funding as ‘punishment’ over Tina Peters, judge finds

Possible funding cuts to Colorado's SNAP program came shortly after Trump issued a legally meaningless “pardon” to Peters, and amid a “barrage of threats and actions designed, by all appearances, to punish Colorado.”

Federal Judge Shreds Trump's Tina Peters Retaliation Campaign

As Michael Karlik reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette, a federal judge delivered a powerful rebuke to the Trump administration yesterday in a written order halting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s so-called “pilot project” to hold back millions of dollars in food assistance funds from the state of Colorado, on pretenses so thin that the […]