Washington On Friday, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration permission to temporarily withhold around $4 billion in payments for the SNAP food aid program, as mandated by a federal judge.
A Rhode Island-based U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s decision for the payments to be made by Friday night was temporarily delayed by the court through an order filed by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
According to the administration, there is only enough money to pay a portion of benefits this month due to the government shutdown. It had previously consented to pay around $5 billion from a SNAP contingency fund, but claimed McConnell lacked the jurisdiction to compel it to pay an additional $4 billion from a different program.
According to a memo that NBC News was able to get, the Agriculture Department had stated earlier on Friday that it would make the entire payments. For the time being, USDA “will complete the processes necessary” to completely award SNAP payments, according to Patrick Penn, deputy undersecretary of Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services.
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