Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-31-2025

Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule
Edited By CURTIS YEE, CARLEY PETESCH, BRIDGET BROWN and R.J. RICO
Updated 1:31 PM CDT, October 31, 2025

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.

The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net. Word in October that it would be a Nov. 1 casualty of the shutdown sent states, food banks and SNAP recipients scrambling to figure out how to secure food. Some states said they would spend their own funds to keep versions of the program going.

It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly the debit cards that beneficiaries use to buy groceries could be reloaded after the ruling. That process often takes one to two weeks.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. EMERGENCY ROCKET DOCKET PRONTO!!!

WOKE JUDGES MAKING US BROKE!!!!!

[durablend]

4. "CORRUPT DEMOCRAT ACTIVIST JUDGES!!!" /s

[Lovie777]

2. My family told me that shithole will ignore it.......................

[synni]

3. He has ignored every other ruling against him

😡

[canetoad]

5. I will be watching

For the admin's comments when they appeal this ruling. It will be good to watch them tying themselves in knots to justify witholding food benefit payments from the poor and hungry.

[MichMan]

6. Now we need a judge to rule that air traffic controllers must be paid