A federal judge yesterday ordered the Trump Gatsby administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by today, rejecting the administration’s plan to partially fund that food stamp program for 42 million Americans during the U.S. government shutdown. Via CNBC:

“People have gone without for too long,” Judge Jack McConnell said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island as he issued the order requiring the administration to tap funding sources it ruled as being out of bounds 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, McConnell said. “That’s what irreparable harm here means. Last weekend, SNAP benefits lapsed for the first time in our nation’s histo

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