By Leah Douglas and Nate Raymond

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday it was working to comply with a judge’s order to pay full food aid benefits for nearly 42 million low-income Americans within the day, even as President Donald Trump’s administration urged an appeals court to relieve it of that obligation.

The USDA memo came the same day that the administration also asked a federal appeals court to block the judge’s order. The order issued Thursday blocked the administration’s prior plan to only partially fund benefits during the longest-ever federal government shutdown.

“FNS (USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service) is working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances in compliance with the November 6, 2025, order from the District Court o

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