Millions of low-income families around the country confronted new delays and disruptions to their food stamp benefits Saturday, after a late-night Supreme Court order allowed the Trump administration to continue withholding some funding for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.
Only one day earlier, states including Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Oregon had started sending full benefits to the roughly 1 in 8 Americans who receive aid each month, seeking to put an end to weeks of uncertainty and spare the poorest Americans from severe financial hardship.
But the process appeared to grind to a halt Friday night. The Supreme Court granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to pause an order issued by a federal judge, who had required the White House to fully fun

The Garden Island

Local News in Massachusetts
New York Post
Raw Story
Today in History
Local News in Oregon
AlterNet
ABC 7 Chicago Politics