The U.S. Department of Agriculture is demanding that states reverse full SNAP benefits that were issued under recent court orders.

What they're saying:

"To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized," Patrick Penn, deputy undersecretary of Agriculture, reportedly wrote to state SNAP directors on Sunday. "Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025."

November SNAP payments

The backstory:

The food assistance program, which 42 million Americans rely on, has been in limbo for several weeks now amid the government shutdown.

Nonprofits and Democratic attorneys general sued to force the Trump administration to maintain the program in November. They won the favorable rulings last week, le

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