(WHTM) — The Shapiro Administration released a statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court granting the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fund SNAP food aid payments.

The AP reported that a Rhode Island federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund SNAP benefits for November. The administration promptly appealed the ruling, and after a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause, per the AP.

The Shapiro Administration released the following statement in response to the decision:

"Following a federal judge's ord

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