The Department of Agriculture late Saturday evening instructed states to “immediately undo steps” taken to fund SNAP benefits for November.
“The US Supreme Court granted the US Department of Agriculture an administrative stay of the orders issued by the District Court of Rhode Island,” the memo read.
“Pending any explicit direction to the contrary from Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), States must not transmit full benefit issuance files to EBT processors. Instead, States must continue to process and load the partial issuance files that reflect the 35 percent reduction of maximum allotments detailed in the November 5 guidance,” the memo stated.
“To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized. Accordingly, States must immediately undo steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.”
The memo also warns against failure to comply.
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The memo comes after US Supreme Court on Friday evening temporarily halted a lower court’s order requiring the Trump Administration to fund SNAP benefits for November.
On Thursday, Judge John McConnell, a Rhode Island-based district court judge, ordered the Trump Administration to fund SNAP benefits amid the Schumer Shutdown.
The lawless judge ordered the Trump Administration to take funding from child nutrition programs and redirect it to SNAP.
On Friday evening, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge John McConnell’s order forcing the Trump Administration to fully deliver the SNAP benefits to states by midnight tonight.
Late Friday evening Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily halted Judge McConnell’s order requiring Trump to fund SNAP benefits in full.
Justice Jackson stayed the judge’s order to allow the First Circuit Court of Appeals to review the ruling.
“This administrative stay will terminate forty-eight hours after the First Circuit’s resolution of the pending motion, which the First Circuit is expected to issue with dispatch,” Justice Jackson wrote.
BREAKING: Stay issued. pic.twitter.com/813aYy0qk9
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) November 8, 2025
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