A federal judge in Boston today ordered the US Department of Agriculture to use a $6-billion emergency fund set up by Congress last year to make at least partial SNAP payments as long as the Republican shutdown of the government continues.

In her ruling, US District Court Indira Talwani gave regime lawyers until Monday to say whether they would seek to make only partial SNAP payments or whether they would tap into other funds the regime still has to ensure that senior citizens, the disabled and families with young children don't simply starve. Before Republicans shut down the government, it was paying roughly $8 billion a month into SNAP, which lets low-income American citizens buy food.

Talwani said the regime used "an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions" to conc

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