Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will not be distributed until the federal government is funded and reopened despite federal court orders.
Nov. 4 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will not be distributed until the federal government is funded and reopened, despite federal court orders to do so.
Two federal judges on Friday ordered the Trump administration to access contingency funds and distribute SNAP benefits despite the lack of funding for the federal government.
President Donald Trump on Saturday said his administration would do so, but he changed course and said SNAP benefits will not be distributed until the federal government is funded again.
„SNAP benefits, which increased by billions and billions of dollars during crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office, will be given only when radical-left Democrats open up the government and not before!“ Trump said Tuesday in a Truth Social post.
U.S. District Court of Rhode Island Judge John McConnell Jr. on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to fund SNAP benefits no later than Wednesday, which the president initially agreed to do.
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USA — mix Trump reverses course, will not fund SNAP until the government reopens