The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court late on Nov. 7 to halt a judge’s order that requires the federal government to fully fund food stamps in November after a federal appeals court declined to do so.
Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the emergency application to the nation’s highest court in a post on X.
Bondi described the judge’s order that required funding of the program as “judicial activism at its worst.”
“A single district court in Rhode Island should not be able to seize center stage in the shutdown, seek to upend political negotiations that could produce swift political solutions for SNAP and other programs, and dictate its own preferences for how scarce federal funds should be spent,” Bondi said….
Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Pause Order Requiring Full SNAP Funding for November
