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Judge Rules in Favor of Using Emergency Funds to Support SNAP Program

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to tap into emergency funds to pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), just hours before the federal dollars were expected to run out, in response to a lawsuit from citizens and nonprofits over the USDA’s failure to use emergency funds to support SNAP during the shutdown.

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