{"id":8254,"date":"2025-11-01T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2025-11-01T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:17:23","slug":"federal-judge-rules-trump-admins-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8254","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rules Trump admin\u2019s SNAP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Judge Rules Trump SNAP Suspension \u201cLikely Unlawful\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration\u2019s plan to suspend SNAP food benefits<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for 42 million Americans amid the government shutdown was \u201clikely unlawful,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>though she did not order the use of emergency funds to continue payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>USDA Ordered to Report Options<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani gave the Department of Agriculture until Monday to report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>whether it could \u201cauthorize only reduced SNAP benefits\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>using disaster contingency money or provide full benefits with \u201cemergency money and additional available funds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>State Lawsuit Challenges Suspension<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders of 25 Democratic-run states and D.C. sued the USDA after officials warned the \u201cwell has run dry\u201d for SNAP,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>citing the first lapse in federal funding for 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The states argued the administration violated the Food and Nutrition Act,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which requires that \u201cassistance under this program shall be furnished to all eligible households.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contingency Fund Limitations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stated,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is only allowed to flow if the underlying program is funded,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>noting the contingency fund wouldn\u2019t cover the $9.2 billion needed for November benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Rules Trump SNAP Suspension \u201cLikely Unlawful\u201d A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration\u2019s plan to suspend SNAP food benefits for 42 million Americans amid the government shutdown was \u201clikely unlawful,\u201d though she did not order the use of emergency funds to continue payments. USDA Ordered to Report Options Boston US District&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8256,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/8256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}