The Trump administration on Nov. 7 asked an appeals court to put on hold a judge’s order that requires the federal government to fully fund food stamps in November.
The emergency motion was filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
The motion comes after Judge John McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to pay states the money by Nov. 7 for distribution to the nation’s roughly 42 million Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants.
“People have gone without for too long. Not making payments to them for even another day is simply unacceptable,” McConnell said….