A federal judge was asked Tuesday to force the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits during the government shutdown, a day after the administration said it would pay only half of the costs of those food stamps for November.
Lawyers in a court filing said that the administration’s decision to pay partial benefits out of a contingency fund did not meet Judge Jack McConnell’s prior order that any decision to make partial payments “cannot be arbitrary and capricious.”
About 42 million Americans receive food stamp benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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