{"id":1056768,"date":"2025-10-31T17:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056768"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:32:05","slug":"breaking-judge-rules-that-trump-must-distribute-snap-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/breaking-judge-rules-that-trump-must-distribute-snap-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Judge Rules That Trump Must Distribute SNAP Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For weeks, Donald Trump has threatened to withhold<\/a> SNAP benefits from 42 million Americans in a cynical effort to score political points during his government shutdown. Today, after two lawsuits were successfully brought against the administration, including one by Democratic attorneys general<\/a>, a federal judge ruled<\/a> that Trump must use contingency funds to distribute SNAP benefits . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: This comes months after Trump\u2019s billionaire-first budget bill, which made the largest cut to food assistance in history<\/a>, affecting millions of Americans. Speaker Mike Johnson also admitted<\/a> this week that Republicans see SNAP benefits as nothing more than political leverage in their government shutdown. With 16 million children on the verge of going hungry across the U.S., SNAP benefits are no game. The bottom line is that the Trump administration has the rainy day funds to cover the benefits for working families, but is choosing not to use them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, DNC Communication Director Rosemary Boeglin released the following statement:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cDonald Trump and his loyalists in Congress have spent the week trying to use SNAP as leverage<\/a> for their political games \u2014 threatening to take food assistance away from 42 million Americans, including 16 million children. Democrats fought back, and a federal court just ruled against Trump, proving what we already knew: Trump and Republicans don\u2019t have to leave working families wondering how they\u2019re going to put food on the table. If Trump and Republicans refuse to pay for food assistance for hungry children and families, it\u2019s not because they can\u2019t \u2014 it\u2019s because they won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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