After weeks of delay, federal food benefits should resume to about 1.4 million Ohioans by midweek, according to the state agency that administers the program.

Even though a federal judge ordered him to disburse the funds , President Donald Trump held up the payments to 42 million Americans starting on Nov. 1.

That drove record numbers of families to Ohio food pantries.

Trump claimed he couldn’t pay the food benefits because of the partial shutdown of the federal government. But they were paid in every prior shutdown, and the courts ruled that not only could Trump pay them, he had a duty to.

The food program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is administered by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Bill Teets, a spokesman, on Monday said that his departm

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