WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will not be distributed until Congress ends the federal government shutdown, a reversal from his administration’s announcement just one day earlier, stating that it would partially fund the program for November.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that SNAP benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before.”

The statement appeared to walk back the administration’s Monday announcement that it would use the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s $4.65 billion contingency fund to cover roughly half of November’s normal SNAP payments. The move followed federal court orders requiring the government to release

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