An employee stocks produce at a grocery store in Baltimore on Oct. 30. SNAP food-aid benefits lapsed at the start of November for the first time in the program’s history.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday it was working to comply with a judge’s order to pay full food-aid benefits for nearly 42 million low-income Americans within the day, even as President Donald Trump ’s administration urged an appeals court to relieve it of that obligation.

The USDA memo came the same day that the administration also asked a federal appeals court to block the judge’s order. The order issued Thursday blocked the administration’s prior plan to only partially fund benefits during the longest-ever federal government shutdown.

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