The judge scolded Trump officials for failing to comply with his order to fund the SNAP program through November — and gave them just 24 hours to do so.

For people on the margins of the nation’s economy, the federal food assistance program has become fundamental to their monthly survival.

The temporary ruling by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson followed lower court decisions ordering the Trump administration to fully fund the program.

The ruling by US District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island came after the administration said it would provide $4. 65 billion in emergency funding to partially cover SNAP benefits for November.

The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown.

The Trump administration must fully fund November’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to the tune of roughly $9 billion by Friday, a Rhode Island

The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families said late Friday afternoon it will send out full SNAP allotments to benefit recipients "as soon as this weekend."

A Rhode Island district judge ruled on Thursday that US President Donald Trump's administration must fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) throughout the month of November, after