WASHINGTON − The Trump adminstration filed a last-minute appeal with the Supreme Court to block a court order requiring the government to provide full SNAP food aid benefits to millions of Americans by Nov. 7.

The administration made that request on Friday evening after the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to intervene.

The administration argues there's no legal basis to direct the government "to somehow find $4 billion in the metaphorical couch cushions" because Congress hasn't passed a budget for the year.

The funding lapse is a crisis only Congress can solve, the Justice Department said in the appeal.

And unless the Supreme Court steps in, they told the justices, every beneficiary of a federal program could run into court to try to get funding, inviting

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