A federal judge has said she will continue to block the Trump administration from enforcing a directive ordering states to reduce or revoke full SNAP benefits.

The administration is now attempting to retract hundreds of millions of dollars in food assistance benefits distributed after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - which pays for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - informed states last week that it was "working to implement" benefits in compliance with a court order.

"It would seem to me that if the agency is trying to comply with the law and with the executive branch's preferences on policies, a piece of that wouldn't be trying to play vindictive games with the states. That's not part of it," said U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Monday, according to

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