Jennifer Ludden
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999 appearances
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first heard Jul 2025
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And it said it had no legal authority to tap contingency funds for that.
Judge Indira Talwani in Boston did not buy that at all.
She says the administration must use that money to keep the country's largest anti-hunger program going.
And in fact, she said they could also tap a larger amount in customs revenue
though she's leaving it up to the administration to decide if they'll do that.
The federal government usually sends SNAP funding to states well before the first of the month because it takes days to distribute it onto people's debit-like cards.
Now, there's an added complication.
The Agriculture Department's contingency money falls short of full SNAP funding for November.
The administration has said calculating partial payments would be a logistical nightmare that could take weeks.
States and cities across the country have been preparing for a lapse.
They're ramping up donations to food banks, offering protections if people fall behind on their bills, even shifting their own budgets to pay some amount of food aid to snap recipients temporarily.
Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.
A federal judge in Boston said the administration not only can but must use contingency funds to keep SNAP going.
She said it could also shift other money, but left it up to the administration to decide whether to do so.
The contingency funds fall short of SNAP's November budget, so the Trump administration may decide to issue only partial payments.
It has warned that would be logistically challenging and time-consuming.
The administration has until Monday to decide on a plan.
States and cities across the country are shifting their own money and stepping up food donations to help millions of low-income people get by despite this loss of food aid.
Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington.
A federal judge in Boston said the administration not only can but must use contingency funds to keep SNAP going.
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