Trump admin seeks block on food stamps order
An EBT sign is displayed on the window of a grocery store on Oct. 30, 2025 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City.
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The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency block on a judge’s order that it pay 42 million Americans their full SNAP benefits for November by Friday.
The administration requested that the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals allow it to pay 65 percent of the food stamp benefits this month from a contingency fund, as the administration had proposed earlier this week.
The request came a day after Judge Jack McConnell issued an order in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island rejecting the partial payment option.
McConnell ordered the administration to use so-called Section 32 funds to help fully fund the SNAP benefits, along with the $4.65 billion it already planned to use from the contingency fund appropriated by Congress.
The administration last week said it planned to completely cease payments to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in November because there was no current funding appropriated by Congress for it.
The U.S. government has been shut down since Oct. 1 because Congress has been unable to agree on a bill that would temporarily fund federal programs, including SNAP.
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