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Trump administration faces a deadline to tell judges whether it will use contingency funds for SNAP
President Donald Trump’s administration faces deadlines on Monday to tell two federal judges whether it will comply with court orders that it continue to fund the nation’s biggest food aid program using contingency funds during the government shutdown. Judges in Rhode Island and Massachusetts ruled separately on Friday that the administration must continue to pay for SNAP. The U. S. Department of Agriculture said it would freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Nov. 1 because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. SNAP serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net.