Karoline Leavitt Clarifies Trump SNAP Post — Administration WILL Comply With Court Order to Provide Benefits

Alex Griffing Nov 4th, 2025, 2:03 pm

Weijia Jiang , the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News, pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday to clarify President Donald Trump’s post earlier in the day, vowing to withhold SNAP benefits until the government is reopened.

Jiang asked, “There’s some confusion about SNAP benefits because the president just posted that they will only be given out when the ‘radical left Democrats’ open the government and not before. But just yesterday the administration said it would comply with the court order to expend the full amount of SNAP contingency funds by end of business day yesterday. So did the administrati

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