The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to extend a court-ordered “emergency” injunction that forced the government to pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through the end of Thursday.
The court has ruled in favor of President Donald Trump’s administration, suspending November food stamps on which about 42 million people depend for two more days, while the House of Representatives prepares to vote soon on a funding measure recently approved by the Senate.
If upheld, the policy would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, reinstate SNAP and resolve legal battles without Supreme Court intervention, according to the digital newspaper The Hill.
The court made this decision despite the dissent of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden and accepted the appeal filed by the Trump administration. The justices publicly dissented and voted in favor of restarting SNAP payments, but changed their position last week and upheld a moratorium through Tuesday of this week.
A federal court in Rhode Island ruled that the Trump administration had acted illegally and ordered $5 billion (4.3 billion euros) in reserve funds for the aforementioned program to be depleted, but the amount is insufficient to cover November’s payments, which The Hill estimates will be $9 billion (7.77 billion euros).
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