{"id":175997,"date":"2025-11-07T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175997"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:41:00","slug":"federal-judge-orders-the-trump-administration-to-fund-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175997","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge orders the Trump administration to fund SNAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Welfare-welfare-recipients-should-thank-workers-and-tax-payers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-175998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Welfare-welfare-recipients-should-thank-workers-and-tax-payers-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Welfare-welfare-recipients-should-thank-workers-and-tax-payers-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Welfare-welfare-recipients-should-thank-workers-and-tax-payers-267x333.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Welfare-welfare-recipients-should-thank-workers-and-tax-payers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack McConnell, U.S. District Judge in Rhode Island, issued an order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by Friday. McConnell argued that SNAP recipients have gone too long without these benefits and addressed the fact that they&#8217;re hungry as this process is playing out. The judge defined irreparable harm in terms of people going hungry, of overburdened food pantries, and of needless suffering.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People have gone without for too long,&#8221; U.S. District Judge Jack McConnell said in court Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He scolded the Trump administration for failing to comply with the order he issued last week, which required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the SNAP benefits programs before its funds were slated to lapse on Nov. 1, marking the first time in the program&#8217;s 60-year history that its payments were halted.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also said Trump officials failed to address a known funding distribution problem that could cause SNAP payments to be delayed for weeks or months in some states. He ordered the USDA to tap other contingency funds as needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s likely that SNAP recipients are hungry as we sit here,&#8221; McConnell said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump administration officials said in a court filing this week that they would pay just 65% of the roughly $9 billion owed to fund the SNAP program for November, prompting the judge to update his order and give the administration just 24 hours to comply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened, and needless suffering will occur,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what irreparable harm here means.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Additional Reading:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Deppisch, B. (2025, November 6). Federal judge rules Trump must fully fund SNAP program by Friday. <i>Fox<\/i> News. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/federal-judge-rules-trump-must-fully-fund-snap-program-by-friday\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack McConnell, U.S. District Judge in Rhode Island, issued an order requiring the Trump administration to &hellip; <a title=\"Federal judge orders the Trump administration to fund SNAP\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175997\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal judge orders the Trump administration to fund SNAP<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,47,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-liberals-suck","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}