The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration, allowing it to continue withholding full funding for food stamp payments, including SNAP benefits, for now. The decision extends an administrative stay issued by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, which temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring the government to distribute the full benefits. The stay remains in effect through Thursday. Several groups had sued to compel payment, arguing that withholding benefits harms millions of low-income Americans. If Congress passes a funding bill to reopen the government this week, the pending lawsuits over SNAP funding would likely become moot.

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