(CNN) — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday evening to block a lower court ruling that required the administration to fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November.

The emergency request to the justices came hours after the US Department of Agriculture told states that it was working to comply with the ruling to fully fund the program that was issued a day earlier by US District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island.

This latest legal move has injected more uncertainty into whether food stamp recipients would see their full allotments anytime soon.

The administration had made a similar emergency appeal to a Boston-based federal appeals court Friday morning, but the court had not yet weighed in by the time the USDA sent the guidanc

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