Around 6:30 p.m. Friday, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits amid the government shutdown, The Associated Press reported.

The judge gave the administration until Friday to make the payments through SNAP, but the administration asked the appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.

This comes after Washington Governor Bob Ferguson confirmed Friday that hundreds of thousands of Washington households began receiving their November SNAP benefits.

The rollout came after a federal judge in Rhode Island ord

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