Trump Officials Ask Supreme Court to Halt Order to Fund Food Aid
Volunteers sort donated food items at New York Common Pantry in New York on Oct. 31.
Photographer: Adam Gray/BloombergThe Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to intervene on an emergency basis Friday night to block the transfer of $4 billion in food-aid funds for needy Americans.
The filing came as a federal appeals court declined for now to say the US could keep making only partial payments during the government shutdown while the administration challenges a Rhode Island judge’s directive to fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, at 100%.