The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to continue halting a lower court’s order to issue full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits using funds intended for child nutrition, noting how Congress appears poised to soon end the government shutdown that has thrust the program into uncertainty.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer warned that while the Senate reached a deal to reopen the government, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit’s decision not to block a lower court’s order mandating Section 32 Child Nutrition Funds be moved to fund SNAP injects “the federal courts into the political branches’ closing efforts to end this shutdown” by attempting “to reallocate resources without lawful authority.”

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