A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday, rejecting the administration's plan to partially fund the food stamp program for 42 million Americans during the U.S. government shutdown .

"People have gone without for too long," Judge Jack McConnell said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, where he issued the order.

McConnell said the Trump administration, which had already agreed to tap a congressionally authorized contingency fund to pay partial SNAP benefits, must also use so-called Section 32 funds that it had refused to tap earlier this week.

"The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened, and needless suffering will occur" if SNAP is not fully funded, s

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