Supreme Court Extends Temporary Pause On $4 Billion In Snap Payments For November

WASHINGTON — With a imaginable end to nan authorities shutdown successful sight, nan Supreme Court connected Tuesday extended a frost connected a national judge’s ruling that would require the Trump administration to afloat money nan SNAP nutrient programme successful November.

The determination intends nan government, for now, does not person to administer astir $4 cardinal successful further SNAP backing arsenic required by Rhode Island-based U.S. District Judge John McConnell. The Supreme Court artifact remains successful spot until midnight connected Thursday.

The lawsuit would apt go moot if nan shutdown ends, arsenic the bipartisan measure to reopen nan government would afloat money nan SNAP programme done September of adjacent year. The House is expected to ballot Wednesday connected nan Senate-passed measurement to extremity nan record-long shutdown.

Nearly 42 cardinal group trust connected nan national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, besides known arsenic nutrient stamps.

"The only measurement to extremity this situation — which nan Executive is adamant to extremity — is for Congress to reopen nan government," Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote successful nan Trump administration's latest tribunal filing.

The brief tribunal order noted that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would person denied nan government's request.

The tribunal had temporarily put McConnell’s ruling connected hold Friday while it waited for nan Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to act. That tribunal connected Monday greeting declined to intervene.

The Trump management has based on that, because of nan shutdown, it could only walk $5 cardinal retired of a contingency money to partially salary for November SNAP benefits. The programme usually costs astir $9 cardinal a month.

The authorities objected to McConnell’s bid that required nan different astir $4 cardinal to beryllium paid from a abstracted cookware of money that costs kid nutrition programs, called Section 32.

The applicable effect of nan Supreme Court determination Tuesday intends that until nan authorities shutdown ends, nan SNAP programme will beryllium astir 65% funded.

The Trump administration's nonaccomplishment to money SNAP was challenged by a conjugation including cities, churches and nonprofits that supply nutrient assistance.