Trump administration demands states 'undo' full SNAP payouts as states warn of 'catastrophic impact'
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President Donald Trump's administration is demanding that states reverse full SNAP benefits issued under recent court orders. The U.S.

President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding states “undo” full SNAP benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings, marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million Americans.

The demand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came as more than two dozen states warned of “catastrophic operational disruptions” if the Trump administration does not reimburse them for those SNAP benefits they authorized before the Supreme Court’s stay.

Nonprofits and Democratic attorneys general sued to force the Trump administration to maintain the program in November despite the ongoing government shutdown. They won the favorable rulings last week, leading to the swift release of benefits to millions in several states, and the Trump administration belatedly said the program could continue.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    19 hours ago

    This, however, is the part of the article that stuck out to me. Look who stayed the orders forcing SNAP payouts. Sounds like yet another instance of zero opposition from the opposition.

    On Friday night, however, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily paused the two rulings ordering the SNAP disbursement while the nation’s highest court considered the Trump administration’s appeal. That led the Department of Agriculture on Saturday to write state SNAP directors to warn them it now considers payments under the prior orders “unauthorized.”

    • sprack@lemmy.world
      5·
      16 hours ago

      She allowed the appeal because it sends it back to the lower court. They will hear the case faster than the Supreme Court and are more likely to force the release of the funds for SNAP.