Supreme Court extends stay of order requiring payment of full November SNAP benefits

Justice Jackson, who granted the enactment connected Monday, was the lone dissenting vote.

The Supreme Court connected Tuesday extended Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's administrative enactment of a little tribunal bid that the Trump medication immediately implicit payment of afloat SNAP benefits for November. 

The determination -- implicit the noted sole objection of Justice Jackson herself -- preserves the presumption quo arsenic Congress appears connected the cusp of ending the record-breaking government shutdown and afloat backing SNAP done the fiscal year. 

The tribunal did not explicate its decision. 

Justice Jackson indicated that she would person denied the Trump administration's exertion and required it to instantly wage retired afloat November SNAP benefits during the pendency of enactment connected Capitol Hill. 

Justice Jackson granted the enactment connected Monday astatine the government's request.

"The irreparable harms of allowing territory courts to inject themselves into the shutdown and determine however to triage constricted funds are sedate capable to warrant a stay," Solicitor General John Sauer wrote successful arguing for the stay. 

A placard wrong a convenience store states "WE ACCEPT EBT" (Electronic Benefit Transfer), which volition beryllium halted tomorrow, weeks into the continuing U.S. authorities shutdown, successful Thornton, Colorado, Oct. 31, 2025.

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The determination came arsenic U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani connected Monday blocked the Trump medication from enforcing a memo directing states to "undo" the issuance of afloat SNAP benefits, aft the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs SNAP, told states to "immediately undo immoderate steps taken to contented afloat SNAP benefits for November 2025."

The USDA initially told states connected Friday that is was "working towards implementing November 2025 afloat payment issuances" pursuing an bid by U.S. District Judge McConnell that the Trump medication fully money SNAP for the period of November.

The medication said it would partially money SNAP with astir $4.5 billion, but that it needed the remaining funds to support WIC programs that provender children.

Based connected the USDA's archetypal guidance, 20 states said they had begun the process of issuing afloat November benefits.

"What you person close present is disorder of the agency's ain making," Judge Talwani said during a proceeding Monday.

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