WASHINGTON, D.C. (LOOTPRESS) – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal food benefits provided through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will be issued only when Democrats vote to end the ongoing government shutdown.

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

Mr. Trump’s comment came a day after administration lawyers told a federal court in Rhode Island that the government would tap into a contingency fund to issue partial food stamp payments for November.

The Justice Department said in a filing that the Department of Agriculture would provide states with information necessary for calculating the benefits due to each eligib

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