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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:10 PM Nov 2

Trump administration faces Monday deadline to respond to judge's SNAP order

Source: NBC News

Nov. 2, 2025, 2:54 PM EST


The Trump administration is staring down a noon deadline on Monday to update a federal judge who ruled late last week that the Agriculture Department must disburse Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds.

The deadline comes as tens of millions of Americans continue to go without their November SNAP benefits due to the shutdown, which is just days away from becoming the longest in U.S. history.

Across the country, the shutdown’s impact was visible in long lines at food banks. This weekend in Texas and California, stadium parking lots were converted into mass distribution sites where families picked up boxes of produce, frozen meat and other household staples.

In the days before the November SNAP funding was expected to run dry, many state governments tried to help fill the gap. Last week, Democratic leaders from 25 states also sued the Agriculture Department, trying to force the department to use contingency funds to keep the program operating as the shutdown continues.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/snap-monday-deadline-rcna241386

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bluestarone

(20,783 posts)
1. Can you feel it? I'm thinking TSF wants to tell the judge to GO TO HELL. But
Sun Nov 2, 2025, 08:15 PM
Nov 2

Will he? Time will tell.

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,659 posts)
5. Live updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges' rulings
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 01:05 PM
Nov 3

Reduced benefits suck for these recipients. They were barely getting by with full benefits.

apnews.com/live/donald-... updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges’ rulings

(@lcook2936.bsky.social) 2025-11-03T17:21:03.169Z

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-3-2025

President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required it to keep the food aid program running.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Nov. 1 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. It costs about $8 billion per month nationally.

It’s not clear how much beneficiaries will receive, nor how quickly beneficiaries will see value show up on the debit cards they use to buy groceries. The process of loading the SNAP cards, which involves steps by state and federal government agencies and vendors, can take up to two weeks in some states. The average monthly benefit is usually about $190 per person.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the nation’s largest food program, said last month that benefits for November wouldn’t be paid out due to the federal government shutdown. That set off a scramble by food banks, state governments and the nearly 42 million Americans who receive the aid to find ways to ensure access to groceries.
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