{"id":6797,"date":"2025-10-31T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/trump-administration-blocked-from-cutting-off-snap-benefits-as-two-judges-issue-orders-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:06:13","slug":"trump-administration-blocked-from-cutting-off-snap-benefits-as-two-judges-issue-orders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/trump-administration-blocked-from-cutting-off-snap-benefits-as-two-judges-issue-orders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration blocked from cutting off SNAP benefits as two judges issue orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boxes<\/p>\n

Boxes of sugary cereal fill a store’s shelves on April 16 in Miami, Florida (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 A federal judge in Boston ruled Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s plan to pause a food assistance program for 42 million people was illegal \u2014 but gave the Trump administration until Monday to respond to her finding before she decides on a motion to force the benefits be paid despite the ongoing government shutdown.<\/p>\n

At nearly the same time Friday, a Rhode Island federal judge in a similar case brought by cities and nonprofit groups ordered USDA to continue payments and granted a request for a temporary restraining order.<\/p>\n

However, experts and a key member of Congress said that some SNAP recipients still may see delays in their benefits because changes in administration from the federal government to states to vendors take time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was also no immediate word from USDA on how it will implement the judicial orders, while the administration sought guidance from the courts.<\/p>\n

In a social media post late Friday, President Donald Trump said administration lawyers believed the funds could not legally be paid and that he needed clarification about how to legally distribute SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n

In Massachusetts, in a Friday afternoon\u00a0order<\/a>, District Court of Massachusetts Judge Indira Talwani said she would continue to take \u201cunder advisement\u201d a coalition of Democratic states\u2019 request to force the release of funds from a contingency account holding about $6 billion.<\/p>\n

Her ruling came a day before\u00a0a cutoff of\u00a0<\/a>Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits to low-income households.<\/p>\n

Because Congress is locked in a stalemate over a stopgap spending bill and did not appropriate money for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, administration officials say the program cannot provide federal funds beginning Saturday. In states, SNAP benefits are loaded onto cards on varying dates, but the cutoff would be effective for November benefits.<\/p>\n

Talwani, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, called the administration\u2019s conclusion it can\u2019t provide SNAP funding \u201cerroneous,\u201d and said the reserve fund was sufficient for SNAP benefits to flow to states and the vendors that add money to debit-like cards issued to the program\u2019s beneficiaries that are used to purchase groceries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The law creating the program mandated that benefits continue, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants are statutorily mandated to use the previously appropriated SNAP contingency reserve when necessary and also have discretion to use other previously appropriated funds,\u201d Talwani wrote.<\/p>\n

Talwani ordered the administration to say by Monday whether it would provide at least partial benefits for November.<\/p>\n

Trump seeks clarification<\/h4>\n

Trump on social media said that he would be happy to see the funding go out and blamed Democrats for the monthlong shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have instructed our lawyers to ask the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cIt is already delayed enough due to the Democrats keeping the Government closed through the monthly payment date and, even if we get immediate guidance, it will unfortunately be delayed while States get the money out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government filed a brief in the Rhode Island case asking the judge in that case to clarify how his order could legally be carried out.<\/p>\n

Earlier Friday, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was noncommittal when asked if the department would comply with an order to resume benefits,\u00a0according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the Department of Justice, which is representing the administration in the case, did not return messages seeking comment Friday.<\/p>\n

The 25 states that sued were Massachusetts, California, Arizona, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington state, Wisconsin Kansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The District of Columbia also sued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Contingency fund can\u2019t flow in shutdown, USDA chief says<\/h4>\n

At a press conference with U.S. House Republicans earlier Friday, Rollins said it was \u201ca lie\u201d that the contingency fund could be used to provide benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a contingency fund at USDA, but that contingency fund, by the way, doesn\u2019t even cover, I think, half of the $9.2 billion that would be required for November SNAP,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it is only allowed to flow if the underlying program is funded. It\u2019s called a contingency fund, and by law, a contingency fund can only flow when the underlying fund is flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judges authoring Friday\u2019s court orders disagreed with Rollins\u2019 argument, which was also at odds with a shutdown plan her own department published on Sept. 30 before quietly deleting it sometime in October. The plan called for SNAP benefits to continue during a shutdown because the contingency fund existed.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongressional intent is evident that SNAP\u2019s operations should continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds,\u201d the Sept. 30 plan said.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat who is the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, said benefit payments \u201cwill likely be delayed by several days or more\u201d and blamed the situation on the administration\u2019s refusal to spend from the contingency fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe administration has chosen to hold hungry families hostage in their partisan political games,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cIt is cruel. It is shameful. And as federal judges in two states have now affirmed, it is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhode Island case<\/h4>\n

In Rhode Island, where the judge granted a temporary restraining order, the advocacy group Democracy Forward, which was among those bringing the suit, praised the move.<\/p>\n

\u201cA federal court today granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump-Vance administration\u2019s unlawful effort to halt the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the ongoing government shutdown,\u201d the group said. \u201cThe decision ensures that millions of children, seniors, veterans, and families will continue to receive essential food assistance while the case proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge in that case, John James McConnell Jr., said the administration\u2019s actions violated a key federal administrative law against arbitrary and capricious executive action and federal spending laws \u201cby disregarding Congress\u2019s direction that SNAP must continue operating,\u201d Democracy Forward said.<\/p>\n

McConnell also was appointed by Obama.<\/p>\n

Delays in benefits likely<\/h4>\n

Friday\u2019s orders will likely not stop some SNAP benefits from at least being delayed, according to Lauren Kallins, a senior legislative director for state-federal affairs at the National Conference of State Legislatures.<\/p>\n

Even if the Trump administration immediately complied with McConnell\u2019s order that benefits must be released, the process of moving money from the U.S. Treasury to states to vendors to beneficiaries takes time.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the best of circumstances\u2026 it\u2019s not a switch that can be flipped on once USDA decides to release funds,\u201d Kallins, whose organization coordinates and advocates for bipartisan state lawmakers in every state, said.<\/p>\n

States generally release SNAP funds to beneficiaries on a staggered basis, meaning that different beneficiaries receive their allotments on different days of the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the situation unresolved a day before the new benefits month begins, some are certain to see at least delays in benefits, Kallins said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor people who get their allotments in the beginning of the month, there\u2019s definitely going to\u2026 be a delay here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Additionally, if USDA were to release money only from the contingency fund, it could take states time to determine how to distribute prorated benefits.<\/p>\n

Congress no closer to resolution<\/h4>\n

On Capitol Hill, the parties appeared no closer Friday to reaching an agreement as the government shutdown stretched into its second month.<\/p>\n

House Republicans continued to blame Democrats for the standstill, urging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to get his caucus behind the House-passed GOP measure to reopen the government at last fiscal year\u2019s spending levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans have done our part to end the Democrat shutdown, and now it\u2019s time for Democrats to do theirs,\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe path forward is simple \u2014 please, please, every American who is concerned about this, every American that is feeling the harm, you should call the Senate Democrats and tell them to stop the nonsense, echo the voices of the unions, of the airlines, of hardworking people everywhere, and tell them to stop doing this and open the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats have voted against the GOP measure, saying congressional Republicans must negotiate an extension of tax subsidies for those who buy health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those subsidies are\u00a0set to expire\u00a0<\/a>at the end of the year, leaving millions to see their premiums skyrocket when they get premium notices beginning Saturday.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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