{"id":4147,"date":"2025-11-03T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyonesdiary.com\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:00:05","slug":"federal-judge-rules-trump-admins-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyonesdiary.com\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rules Trump admin\u2019s SNAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"102\"><strong data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"100\">Judge Rules Trump SNAP Suspension \u201cLikely Unlawful\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"367\">A federal judge in Massachusetts found that the Trump administration\u2019s plan to suspend <strong data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"213\">SNAP food benefits<\/strong> for 42 million Americans during the government shutdown was <strong data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"296\">\u201clikely unlawful.\u201d<\/strong> However, the judge did <strong data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"352\">not order emergency payments<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"369\" data-end=\"386\"><strong data-start=\"369\" data-end=\"384\">Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"1047\">\n<li data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"631\">\n<p data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"631\"><strong data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"417\">USDA Reporting Required:<\/strong> Judge Indira Talwani ordered the Department of Agriculture to report by Monday on whether it could provide <strong data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"545\">reduced benefits<\/strong> from disaster funds or <strong data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"586\">full benefits<\/strong> using emergency and other available funds.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"632\" data-end=\"823\">\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"823\"><strong data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"652\">State Lawsuit:<\/strong> Leaders of <strong data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"701\">25 Democratic-run states and D.C.<\/strong> sued the USDA, citing violations of the <strong data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"768\">Food and Nutrition Act<\/strong>, which guarantees assistance to eligible households.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"1047\">\n<p data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"1047\"><strong data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"854\">Contingency Fund Limits:<\/strong> Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins explained that the disaster fund only applies if the underlying program is funded, and it cannot cover the <strong data-start=\"999\" data-end=\"1015\">$9.2 billion<\/strong> needed for November benefits.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1211\"><strong data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1062\">Takeaway:<\/strong> The court signals that halting SNAP payments may violate federal law, but immediate relief for recipients remains uncertain due to funding limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Rules Trump SNAP Suspension \u201cLikely Unlawful\u201d A federal judge in Massachusetts found that the Trump administration\u2019s plan to suspend SNAP food benefits for 42 million Americans&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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