The US Supreme Court extended a pause on $4 billion in food aid, likely ensuring that millions of low-income families won’t get assistance until Congress reopens the government and provides full benefits.

Siding with President Donald Trump’s administration, the justices said they will maintain a block on lower court rulings that would require immediate payment of full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits this month for 42 million recipients. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

The administration told the Supreme Court on Monday that allowing full SNAP benefits immediately would risk upending the deal Republicans struck with eight Senate Democrats to let the government reopen. The court should “let the political process that is rapidly playing out reach its conclusion,”

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