USDA orders states to ‘undo’ steps to supply full SNAP meals profit funds after Supreme Court pause | EUROtoday

The USDA ordered states to “undo” steps taken to challenge full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program advantages after the Supreme Court quickly paused a decrease court docket order requiring the Trump administration to totally fund this system.

“To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized,” the company wrote in a memo Sunday. “Accordingly, states must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.”

Nearly 42 million Americans depend on SNAP advantages every month. Due to the continued authorities shutdown, advantages haven’t been doled out for practically every week — the primary lapse in this system’s 61-year historical past.

A district decide Thursday ordered that the Trump administration to pay SNAP advantages for the month of November. “People have gone without for too long. Not making payments to them for even another day is simply unacceptable,” the decide mentioned. “This should never happen in America.”

The authorities then filed an attraction, which the federal appeals court docket rejected on Friday. President Donald Trump then appealed to the nation’s highest court docket, which quickly granted the Trump administration’s request.

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson signed an order Friday stating “an administrative stay is required to facilitate the First Circuit’s expeditious resolution of the pending stay motion.”

As the authorized problem was enjoying out in numerous courts, the USDA issued a discover Friday stating it was “working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances in compliance” with the decrease court docket order.

Following the Supreme Court justice’s order, on Sunday, the USDA warned that “failure to comply with this memorandum may result in USDA taking various actions, including cancellation of the Federal share of State administrative costs and holding States liable for any over issuances that result from the noncompliance.”

Before the courts intervened, the USDA warned final month that the “well has run dry” and that “there will be no benefits issued November 1.”

Food banks have been swamped over the past month because of the shutdown, which has left tons of of 1000’s of federal staff with out pay and now, hundreds of thousands extra with out entry to meals help advantages.

Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari slammed the most recent USDA memo, declaring that the president attended a lavish ceremonial dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Friday which featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desserts.

“Trump’s @USDA just told states to “undo” full SNAP advantages—and threatened to punish them in the event that they preserve feeding households. They are deliberately ravenous Americans whereas Trump performs golf and throws lavish events for billionaires. It’s unconscionable. And we gained’t let it stand,” the Congresswoman wrote on X Sunday.

Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray equally wrote: “In the dead of night, the Trump administration ordered states to stop issuing SNAP benefits. This president will stop at nothing to take food out of the mouths of hungry kids across America. Soulless.”