Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A Boston federal appeals court late Sunday rejected the Trump administration's request to avoid paying full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during the federal government shutdown.
The lower court judge's order to pay is still paused because of an order Friday by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to stay the appeals court's ruling. The stay is in effect until 48 hours after the Sunday night appeals ruling. This allows the Trump administration time to apply to the Supreme Court for a permanent stay.
The government has been shut down since Oct. 1. It's the longest shutdown in American history.
The ruling comes one day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture threatened states that have already issued full benefits, including to the Women, Infants and Children program. The memo said that states will lose federal funding if they don't "immediately undo any steps taken" to distribute funds.
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