Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday temporarily halted a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to make full November payments under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).
Her ruling pauses some payments until the First Circuit Court of Appeals decides whether to block the order while the case continues. Jackson wrote that “an administrative stay is required to facilitate the First Circuit’s expeditious resolution of the pending stay motion.”
The decision offers a short-term victory for the Trump administration, which appealed to the Supreme Court hours earlier.
SNAP, serving about 42 million Americans, faces a funding lapse amid a shutdown now in its sixth week. Cities and advocacy groups sued after the USDA announced benefits would stop in November—the first full cutoff in the program’s history.
Jackson’s order gives the administration time to argue that fiscal restraint, not judicial intervention, should guide federal spending during the impasse.
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