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The Trump administration has requested an emergency stay of a court order that requires it to pay the full SNAP benefits for November by transferring funds from elsewhere amid the ongoing federal government shutdown. "This is a crisis, to be sure, but it is a crisis occasioned by congressional failure, and that can only be solved by congressional action," said the administration's latest appeals court filing in the first circuit. "Instead, a single district judge has devised his own solution: ordering USDA to cover the SNAP shortfall by transferring billions of dollars that were appropriated for different, equally critical food-security programs—and to do so within just one business day (i.e., by today). "This unprecedented injunction makes a mockery of the separation of powers. Courts hold neither the power to appropriate nor the power to spend."
