Wisconsin will not remove food assistance payments after the Trump administration sought to stop them from going out, Gov. Tony Evers said Sunday.

The Trump administration had refused to fund the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known in Wisconsin as FoodShare, during the government shutdown. That meant Wisconsin recipients did not get benefits on Nov. 1.

On Thursday, a judge ruled the administration could not withhold funding for the program, and on Thursday evening Evers moved to restore the halted benefits.

But on Friday evening a judge temporarily granted the Trump administration’s request to block the assistance from going out. That led the U.S. Department of Agriculture to issue a directive to states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefit

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