The administration requested that the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals allow it to pay 65% of the food stamp benefits this month from a contingency fund, as it proposed to the judge earlier this week.

The move came a day after Judge Jack McConnell issued an order in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island rejecting the partial payment option .

McConnell ordered that the U.S. Department of Agriculture use so-called Section 32 funds to help fully fund the SNAP benefits, along with the $4.65 billion it already planned to use from the contingency fund appropriated by Congress. The administration earlier had rejected the idea of using Section 32 funds for that purpose.

In its filing Friday with the appeals court, the Trump administration said that the "crisis" of the lack of regular fundi

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