"President Donald Trump rattled off some false claims to dismiss the idea that Americans are paying more at the grocery store. The president hosted several Central Asian leaders in the East Room of the White House on Thursday night, where he took questions from reporters. At one point, Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked the president for his reaction to a federal judge's ruling just hours earlier."
"U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordered the Trump administration to issue full payments to beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, whose funding the administration claimed last week would lapse on Nov. 1 because of the ongoing government shutdown. Last Friday, two federal judges, including McConnell, ordered the government to continue funding the program, which the administration did, but only partially."
"The president eventually jumped in to claim that former President Joe Biden was overly generous with SNAP benefits. Biden went totally crazy, gave it to anybody that would ask, Trump alleged. And it's many times the number of people who were on it. This wasn't meant for that. It was meant for people that had real problems. In many cases, people that were down and out, people that could be saved. It wasn't meant for people that could do whatever they wanted."
President Donald Trump took questions from reporters during a White House event with Central Asian leaders about a federal court order on SNAP benefits. U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordered the administration to issue full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments after the administration had continued only partial funding; the government is appealing. Vice President J.D. Vance called the order an absurd ruling and framed it as judicial overreach during a government shutdown. Trump accused former President Joe Biden of expanding SNAP too broadly, saying benefits went to many people who did not have severe need and repeated an inaccurate claim about Thanksgiving meal costs.
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