A small percentage of Coloradans received fully funded food assistance for November before the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a lower court ruling mandating the benefits continue amid the federal shutdown.

While Colorado officials can’t issue full payments to the remaining residents, they don’t plan to recall the funds, Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement.

President Donald Trump’s administration demanded late Saturday night that states “undo” full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week, marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million Americans.

Colorado’s SNAP program relies on $120 million in federal funding to feed more than 600,000 residents in need, half of whom ar

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