FTC chief accuses Democrats of 'trying to protect the fraudsters' by withholding data from Trump admin

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson accused Democratic governors Thursday of "trying to protect the fraudsters" by refusing to provide the Trump administration with SNAP recipient data, arguing their resistance is hindering efforts to root out waste, fraud and abuse in federally funded benefit programs.

"A lot of the red states are cooperating. The blue states are not," Ferguson told "America's Newsroom."

"I don't know what else to infer from the fact that they're not...