Supreme Court blocks full funding of SNAP food aid

The Supreme Court is blocking the full funding of SNAP food aid payments. The high court issued an emergency order that allows the Trump administration to only partially fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown. Justices temporarily blocked a lower court order to fully fund the food assistance for November. The administration had argued that a contingency fund didn’t have enough money to fully fund SNAP. Federal food aid to tens of millions of Americans has been cut because of the ongoing shutdown.