A Federal Court Orders the Government to Pay Overdue SNAP Benefits

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release roughly $5 billion in emergency reserves to keep the nation’s food stamp program running amid the government shutdown — a move that averts an immediate hunger crisis for millions of Americans, including nearly 16 million children.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides food assistance to 42 million people, or about 12% of the U.S. population. Without intervention, the program was set to run out of money begi