Millions of the poorest Americans are stuck in food-stamp limbo. They still do not know when their benefits will arrive—or if they will at all.
In the past few days, the government shutdown has thrown the food-stamp program, formally known as SNAP, into chaos. On Friday, after the Trump administration said that SNAP was on the verge of running out of money, a federal judge ordered the White House to tap into a reserve of funds and pay out billions of dollars in benefits. Then, yesterday, the administration said that it had the funds to provide people on food stamps with only half of their monthly allotment of benefits. To make matters even more confusing, President Donald Trump today appeared to contradict his own Justice Department: SNAP benefits, he posted on Truth Social, “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government.”
