A federal appeals court on Friday left in place a lower court decision that requires the Trump administration to swiftly provide full federal food benefits to roughly 42 million Americans by tapping into two pots of money.

The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency stay of a judge's ruling Thursday ordering the administration to fully fund SNAP.

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.

A federal appeals court has turned down the Trump administration’s bid to avoid paying full food stamp benefits for November, but the ruling is on hold due to an earlier order from Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The court ruling is the latest in a weeks-long legal battle over the fate of the nation’s largest public initiative to combat hunger.

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

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