A federal appeals court is weighing the Trump administration’s request to pause a Rhode Island judge’s order requiring $4 billion to fully fund SNAP benefits for millions of low-income Americans through November.

Justice Brown Jackson's pause of SNAP disbursement allows the lower court time to consider the appeal lodged by the Trump administration.

The Supreme Court temporarily paused a lower-court order requiring the federal government to fully fund SNAP benefits.

After a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund November SNAP benefits, Vice President JD Vance called the ruling "absurd."

In the week since federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits nearly expired, the Trump administration has successfully pushed back on orders from federal