Administration Seeks Help from Top Court After Unsuccessful Attempt to Stop Food Stamp Payment Directive
Last Friday, shortly following a federal appeals court determined that the government must fully fund Snap food aid payments, the White House appealed to the nation's highest court in a additional effort to prevent the ruling.
Within hours, the supreme court handed down an urgent ruling immediately suspending entire nutrition assistance benefits, which nearly 42 hundred thousand people depend on to buy groceries.
“Legal counsel continue working, day and night, to defend and advance our policies,” the attorney general stated on social media just after 9:30pm in Washington.
White House staff had asked the federal appeals court to block a judicial decision mandating they issue the upcoming complete Snap payments during a federal closure, and was denied hours later.
America's Top Court Issues Temporary Injunction Stopping Entire Snap Food Aid Disbursements
The supreme court's decision was issued after the administration petitioned a national appeals court this past Friday to halt a judge’s order that it distribute the upcoming complete Snap benefits during a federal closure.
Subsequent to that appeal to block faced refusal, the administration turned to the supreme court in a further attempt to prevent the ruling to completely finance nutrition assistance payments.
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