US President Donald Trump (R) speaks during a gathering with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese successful the Cabinet Room astatine the White House successful Washington, DC, connected Oct. 20, 2025.
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A national justice successful Rhode Island connected Friday blocked the Trump medication from ceasing to wage SNAP benefits during the U.S. government shutdown.
The oral ruling by Judge Jack McConnell came a time earlier the medication was acceptable to chopped disconnected those nutrient stamp benefits from 42 cardinal Americans.
A Justice Department lawyer argued during a proceeding that the SNAP programme did not beryllium anymore due to the fact that determination were nary congressionally appropriated funds for it arsenic a effect of the shutdown.
The lawyer, Tyler Becker, besides argued it was the administration's discretion whether to usage $6 cardinal successful contingency funds already acceptable speech by Congress to proceed issuing SNAP benefits.
McConnell, successful his ruling, ordered the medication to usage those funds to support astatine slightest immoderate of the SNAP benefits usually paid. He besides said the medication needed to analyse whether different national funds would beryllium disposable to support the programme operating successful the lack of a backing measure by Congress.
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