USDA says it will begin fully funding SNAP benefits
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Live updates as President Donald Trump meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the White House and airlines begin cutting back on flights in response to the government shutdown.
As the shutdown drags on, the USDA is working to comply with a court order to provide SNAP benefits for November. But another appeal has been filed.
For a household of four, the usual maximum of $975 has been reduced to $497 per month. Across all household sizes, the SNAP reduction is roughly 49 percent—meaning households claiming the top amount will get about half of their usual monthly benefit in November.
While the secretary did not elaborate on what, exactly, about SNAP increased by 40%, her claim doesn't make sense no matter how you look at the data.
The Trump administration agreed to issue partial benefits to SNAP recepients following two federal court rulings. However, the calculations and distributions could take anywhere from days to months.
Judge Indira Talwani gives USDA until Saturday to answer states’ demand that it bear full liability for SNAP errors.
The SNAP Equal Treatment Rule prevents retailers from treating food stamp customers differently, but using it in this way appears to be unprecedented.
It's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of a Democrat government shutdown,” said Vice-President JD Vance.