A U.S. Representative from Northeast Ohio wants the Trump administration to release all the November funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, not just the planned partial release. Cities and nonprofits suing the Trump administration filed a new motion Tuesday as benefits remain in limbo.

SNAP funding ran out Saturday, as congressional Republicans and Democrats still have not come to an agreement on a budget bill.

In court filings Monday, the Trump administration said it would use contingency funds to partially fund SNAP in November, but Rep. Emilia Sykes is not sure if that will happen, she said.

“We are not clear about what is going to happen and what direction the administration is gonna go," she said.

Sykes and Ohio’s other congressional Democrats had pr

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