Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) signage at a grocery store in Dorchester, Massachusetts, US, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended by two days a pause in a federal judge’s order that the Trump administration pay full SNAP benefits for November.
The delay will give Congress time to pass a short-term funding bill that would reopen the U.S. government, which has been shut down since Oct. 1, and fund the SNAP program that provides 42 million Americans with food stamps.
The Trump administration had argued in a filing Monday with the Supreme Court that the dispute over the order that it pay those benefits in full could soon be mooted by Congress passing that bill this week. The House of Representatives is expected to start voting on the Senate-approved bill on Wednesday afternoon.
In an order, the Supreme Court said that the administration’s application for a longer-term stay of the order pending an appeal has been referred to the full court for consideration.
The court said that the short-term stay issued on Friday by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the order is extended until 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday.
Tuesday’s order by the court noted that Jackson had said that she would “deny the request for extension of the administrative stay and would deny the application.”
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