Administration Live Updates: Trump Appeals Ruling That Orders Fast and Full SNAP Payments
"Where Things Stand
Food stamps: The administration asked an appeals court on Friday to immediately halt a judge’s ruling that would require the government to fully fund food stamps. The ruling said that this month’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for roughly 42 million Americans must be funded by the end of the day. Read more ›
Trump and Orban: President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary are set to meet on Friday. The two have found common ground over their differences with European allies on Russia’s war in Ukraine, but U.S. sanctions on Moscow risk straining their chummy relationship. Read more ›
Travel disruptions: Airlines canceled hundreds of U.S. flights on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered cuts to air traffic, which officials say were brought on by the government shutdown. This is affecting major airports across the country, including in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Follow live ›
The Trump administration moved on Friday to deny swift and full food stamp payments to millions of low-income Americans, as it asked a federal appeals court to halt a judge’s recent order that would preserve those benefits during the shutdown.
The legal salvo once again plunged the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, into confusion and chaos — and raised the possibility that the poorest families may receive no aid while the fiscal stalemate in Washington remains unresolved.
The Trump administration asked an appeals court on Friday to immediately halt a judge’s recent ruling that would require the government to pay food stamps in full.
On the surface, the meeting on Friday between President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary promises to be a mutual admiration summit between two leaders who have found common ground over their differences with European allies on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
But U.S. sanctions imposed last month on Russia’s two largest energy companies over the war are a sticking point. Hungary gets much of its energy from Russia and Mr. Orban says that the penalties are threatening his country’s sluggish economy as he faces one of the toughest re-election battles of his career.
President Trump and congressional Republicans calculated at the start of the government shutdown that they would avoid negotiations with Democrats, let the public pressure build and then watch them fold.
More than a month in, that strategy appears to have been a miscalculation.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid under the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the shutdown.
But the Justice Department almost immediately told the court that it would appeal the ruling. The move renewed fears that the poorest Americans would not receive their full benefits to purchase groceries this month, leaving many at risk of imminent and severe financial hardship."
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