A federal judge in Rhode Island on Thursday ordered the Trump Administration to fully fund nationwide SNAP benefits for the month of November.

The order requires that full funding be delivered to states no later than Friday, Nov. 7, from additional money held in reserve by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr.'s decision comes after a coalition of cities and nonprofit groups argued that a proposal to partially fund SNAP payments was insufficient.

The judge on Thursday agreed, saying the government had acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" when it chose to only partially fund SNAP in November.

The defendants failed to consider the practical consequences associated with this decision to only partially fund SNAP, he wrote in the order. They knew that

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