It has been a tumultuous week for the roughly 42 million people across the country who rely on federal food assistance.

Some breathed a tentative sigh of relief Friday afternoon after a Rhode Island judge ordered the Trump administration to keep funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, nationwide.

The Agriculture Department had warned that it would no longer pay for the benefits , commonly known as food stamps, starting Nov. 1 because Congress has failed to pass legislation to fund the government . The judge, however, told the administration it must distribute contingency funding for the program as soon as possible.

But much remains unknown: President Donald Trump said Friday evening on Truth Social that he had “instructed our lawyers to ask the Court to c

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