The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on a judge’s order that it pay 42 million Americans full SNAP benefits for November by Friday.
The administration asked the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to allow its plan to pay 65 percent of the food stamp benefits this month from a contingency fund.
The request came a day after Judge Jack McConnell issued an order in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island rejecting the partial payment option.
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