"The highest court in the United States has extended a previous order allowing President Donald Trump to withhold food assistance to tens of millions of people in the US amid the government shutdown. In a ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court extended a previous pause that it had granted the Trump administration after a lower court ordered the government to pay out about $4bn in food benefits for November."
"Advocates have said that withholding the funds could have calamitous effects on people who depend on food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), although the issue could be made moot as the shutdown appears to be drawing to a close. The Supreme Court decision comes one day after the Senate on Monday approved compromise legislation that would end the longest government shutdown in US history,"
The Supreme Court extended a previous pause allowing President Donald Trump to withhold food assistance to tens of millions during the government shutdown. A lower court had ordered the government to pay out about $4bn in November SNAP benefits, and a judge had recently ruled the government must fully fund those benefits; the administration challenged that ruling. Advocates warned that withholding SNAP funds could have calamitous effects on people who depend on the programme, and food benefits ceased entirely at the start of November for the first time in the programme’s 60-year history. The Senate approved compromise legislation to end the shutdown, potentially rendering the dispute moot.
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