The US Supreme Court late Friday entered the increasingly confusing — and desperate — circumstances surrounding the country’s primary food aid program when it blocked a federal judge’s order in Rhode Island that the Trump administration provide full monthly food stamp benefits to 42 million low income and disabled people.

The high court’s intervention just before 9:30 p.m. Friday follows a day in which the US Department of Agriculture said it is “working towards” a court order that it pay full benefits for the program through November.

A federal appeals court in Boston had refused to immediately intervene, saying in a ruling Friday that the government could not justify that it needed an “administrative stay,” because it did not argue that it could not pay at least some of the benefits th

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