SCOTUS extends stay on SNAP benefits for now, impacting millions

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an emergency pause on a lower court order that would have required the Trump administration to immediately begin making full payments to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for the month of November, keeping in limbo the nation's largest food aid program that serves roughly 42 million Americans.

Justices agreed to extend the emergency stay for two days, from Tuesday night to 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 13. 

The action from the high court is a blow — if temporary — to the more than two dozen states who sued the Trump administration late last month to release the full SNAP benefit payments for November. The SNAP benefits lapsed for the first time in the program's 60-year history at the start of the month as a result of the ongoing government shutdown.  

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