Fed Judges Order Emergency Funds Be Used to Pay SNAP Benefits

🚨 BREAKING: An Obama judge just decided President Trump's administration is REQUIRED to pay SNAP benefits to Americans during the Schumer Shutdown

...the judge also ordered Trump to find money from somewhere else (I guess) if "contingency" funds aren't enough

Absolutely… pic.twitter.com/UaaAdizTuN

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 31, 2025

🚨 Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Spend SNAP Funds — Separation of Powers on Thin Ice

The Trump team argued it couldn’t legally use the $5 B contingency fund to pay food benefits during the shutdown.
Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama-appointed federal judge in Massachusetts,… pic.twitter.com/YdPzwzKixs

— Jake (@JakeCan72) October 31, 2025

...A second federal judge in Rhode Island also ordered the use of emergency funds to continue to pay SNAP during the shutdown. https://t.co/y8HVKS8kCu Such orders raise serious questions of judicial overreach in ordering the use of discretionary or emergency funds.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 31, 2025

Obvious judicial overreach, an existential threat to democracy.