Now, one of those two judges has ordered that full SNAP payments must be issued, an order the Trump Administration has already appealed. Here's what we know. During the last week of October, the U.S.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps 42 million Americans obtain enough food each month, is currently not issuing benefits.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily froze a lower court order for full federal food benefits, called SNAP, for 41 million.

A Supreme Court justice has temporarily paused a lower court's ruling requiring the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the month of November by the end of the day Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court's ruling ordering the Trump administration to fully fund food benefits for millions of hungry Americans, throwing the key program into further chaos as the government shutdown drags on.

The court wrangling prolonged weeks of uncertainty for the food program that serves about 1 in 8 Americans, mostly with lower incomes.