(NewsNation) — Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins confirmed to NewsNation on Wednesday that the Trump administration will use contingency funds to provide partial SNAP benefits in November. Last week, two judges issued rulings ordering the Trump administration to use the approximately $5 billion in contingency funding set aside by Congress to fund SNAP amid the ongoing government shutdown. Rollins told NewsNation that even though the administration doesn't believe it is constitutional to use the funding, "The president said, 'Let's get these benefits to the people that need them the most.'"

She explained that the "contingency fund is reliant on the fact that there's an ... underlying and appropriated program, which there isn't right now."

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