US EditionDemocrats seize on Trump administration’s efforts to fight food stamp payments
The administration contests court orders to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, affecting 1 in 8 Americans and using a $4.6 billion emergency reserve for partial payments, courts say.
- Late Friday, the Justice Department filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, which paused the full-payment mandate pending appeals court action through an order signed by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
- After President Donald Trump announced on social media that benefits would stop until the shutdown ended, Democratic-leaning states, nonprofits and cities sued, and two judges ordered the government to fund November benefits.
- Judges ordered use of an emergency reserve fund holding more than $4.6 billion, noting payments would cost between $8.5 billion and $9 billion each month and set a Friday deadline for payments.
- Millions of Americans who rely on SNAP are now in confusing limbo, as some states have received full November benefits while others may wait until next week.
- Democrats have seized on the dispute to cast President Donald Trump as callous amid the longest government shutdown, while the White House plans to refocus messaging on affordability with new tax breaks.
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Latest on federal food aid freeze: MA attorney general says she’s “disappointed” in SCOTUS decision, with senate deal coming
BOSTON – The United States Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments as senators take the first tentative steps towards ending the government shutdown. A judge had given the Republican administration until this upcoming Friday to make the payments through […] The post Latest on federal food aid freeze: MA attorney general says she’s “disappointed”…
For 40 days, the US has been in shutdown mode. For millions of people, it is unclear how much support they get for food shopping. The situation is chaotic.
In the ongoing budget dispute, US President Donald Trump's government has instructed the states to pay a cut in state aid for the purchase of food. "As far as states have already submitted full payments for November, this was not authorized. Appropriate steps must be taken immediately," said a memo from the competent authority under the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Background is a legal deliberation about how much money can be paid for the so-…
Trump is starving America, Democrats argue as government shutdown grinds on with SNAP benefits held hostage
The Trump administration’s legal efforts to fight having to fully fund food stamps for millions of vulnerable Americans is creating an opening for Democrats eager to use the longest government shutdown in U.S. history to paint the president as callous and out of touch. “Donald Trump and his administration have made the decision to weaponize hunger, to withhold SNAP benefits from millions of people, notwithstanding the fact that two lower courts,…
NY starts sending out SNAP payments after being cut off over gov’t shutdown: Kathy Hochul
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's office said Sunday that SNAP benefits went out to New Yorkers using federal funds after the longest-ever federal government shutdown cut off food stamp payments for the first time.
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