WASHINGTON − The Trump adminstration filed a last-minute appeal with the Supreme Court to block a court order requiring the government to provide full SNAP food aid benefits to millions of Americans by Nov. 7.

The administration made that request on Friday evening after the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to intervene.

On Thursday, U.S. Distirct Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island ordered the administration to make full food stamp payments to states within a day.

The administration argues there's no legal basis direct the govenrment "to somehow find $4 billion in the metaphorical couch cushions" because Congress hasn't passed a budget for the year.

The funding lapse is a crisis only Congress can solve, the Justice Department said in the appeal.

And unless

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