ALBANY AND STATEWIDE — ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES — who won a court ruling on Friday to keep SNAP benefit disbursement going — and Governor Kathy Hochul have each praised the judicial decisions that order the Trump administration to utilize contingency funding.

“Millions of families rely on SNAP — or food stamps — to survive,” said James. “The administration tried to use the shutdown as an excuse to withhold food assistance from vulnerable Americans, but the court has made clear that the law requires those benefits to continue. The federal government cannot simply walk away from its obligation to feed the people it serves.”

Hochul said on Friday, “Today’s rulings confirm that the Trump administration must release emergency nutrition assistance for the 3 million New Yorkers set to los

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