President Donald Trump on Nov. 4 said that benefits will not go to federal food stamp recipients until the government is reopened, as a coalition of plaintiffs urged a judge to take action.
Benefits for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
In an email to The Epoch Times, the White House declined to elaborate on the position, which came after Trump administration officials told a federal judge in Rhode Island that it would spend approximately $4.6 billion in contingency money to partially fund SNAP benefits for November….