A federal judge in Rhode Island on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food aid program by Friday, rejecting the administration's effort to only partially fund the benefits program for some 42 million low-income Americans."People have gone without for too long," U.S. District Judge Jack McConnell said in court Thursday.He scolded the Trump administration for failing to comply with the order he issued last week, which required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the SNAP benefits programs before its funds were slated to lapse on Nov. 1, marking the first time in the program's 60-year history that its payments were halted.
Good. Regardless of who's side you're on when it comes to who to blame for this record-breaking gov't shutdown we're still in, the 42 million people currently on SNAP shouldn't have to suffer because of it. And while one could make a sound argument that there needs to be changes to SNAP, that needs to be done through legislation and is a totally different matter, which conservatives who don't have to worry about where the next meal is coming from need to stop barking about.
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