Directive comes after supreme court order allowing Trump officials to pause food aid payments amid shutdown

U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. had given Trump’s administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The Trump administration told states to make benefits available even as it asked the Supreme Court to let it block the benefits.

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court said Friday that the Trump administration does not have to immediately pay SNAP food benefits defunded during the government shutdown, a temporary…

The Trump administration has resisted continuing the SNAP program, which provides food stamps to 42 million Americans, during the government shutdown.

The move is the Trump administration's latest chaotic attempt to withhold SNAP benefits from 42 million Americans during the ongoing government shutdown.

The food assistance programme has been caught in a back-and-forth legal battle over funding as the government shutdown drags on.

The Trump administration has ordered states to stop distributing benefits to 42 million food insecure Americans, including critical nutrition and aid to the Women, Infants and…

Directive comes after supreme court order allowing Trump officials to pause food aid payments amid shutdown

The government shutdown appears to be coming to an end. But the Supreme Court has left the Trump administration's freeze on food benefits in place through Thursday.