WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is asking an appeals court for an emergency order to block a ruling that the federal government fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits for November by Friday.

What You Need To Know • The Trump administration is asking an appeals court for an emergency order to block a ruling that the federal government fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits for November by Friday • The motion — filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Friday — contends that the order by a Rhode Island district court judge a day earlier “makes a mockery of the separation of powers” • U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. had issued the decision Thursday afternoon after plaintiffs complained that

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