A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funding to pay for the nation’s low-income food program, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program , or SNAP, court records show.

U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell issued the ruling from the bench on Friday, records show.

“There is no doubt that the … contingency funds are appropriated funds that are without a doubt necessary to carry out the program’s operation,” he said, according to CNN . “The shutdown of the government through funding doesn’t do away with SNAP, it just does away with the funding of it.”

His ruling came after a federal judge in Massachusetts, Indira Talwani , set a Monday deadline for federal officials to “consider whether they will authorize at le

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