The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a late-night Saturday memo, also threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not comply with the government's new orders.

The administration says it should only have to pay 65% of food stamp benefits this month due to funding shortfalls tied to the government shutdown. The Trump administration isn’t backing down from its refusal to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—even after being ordered to by a judge on Thursday.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily froze a lower court order for full federal food benefits, called SNAP, for 41 million.

A Supreme Court justice has temporarily paused a lower court's ruling requiring the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the month of November by the end of the day Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The US Department of Agriculture announced Friday that it is working to fully fund food stamp benefits for November to comply with a federal court order, and the process should be completed later in the day.

Judge John McConnell said the administration ignored the practical impact of partial SNAP funding. The USDA announced Wednesday it would cover 65% of benefits this month. Trump previously said he would halt SNAP during the shutdown;