JUST IN: USDA informs states they will comply with court order and release SNAP funds as court battle drags out. Funds could be available as soon as today.
Matching @jacob_fischler who had it first. pic.twitter.com/nLGL8nyN5X— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) November 7, 2025
A federal appeals court on Friday denied the Trump administration’s request to lift a lower court’s order that it fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the month of November by the end of the day Friday.
The Justice Department responded by asking the Supreme Court to intervene by issuing an emergency stay.
The unanimous decision, from a panel of three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, came as least nine states had already begun issuing SNAP benefits under the direction of the federal agency that operates SNAP, even as the Trump administration was fighting a judge’s ruling ordering those benefits to be paid.