Trump stay updates: Judge orders administration to totally fund meals stamps in November
A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to find enough money to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as SNAP, for November.
The ruling from the judge in Rhode Island comes after the administration said it would only partially fund SNAP using $4.6 billion in emergency funding for the month, leaving roughly half of the 41 million Americans enrolled in the food stamps program without benefits.
The judge said the administration “failed to consider the practical consequences” of their decision to partially fund the program and “failed to consider the harms to individuals who rely on those benefits would suffer.”
Two federal judges have previously told the administration they likely had to fund the SNAP program despite the ongoing government shutdown, creating a lapse in funding.
Judge John McConnell accused the Department of Agriculture of “arbitrarily and capriciously created this problem by ignoring the congressional mandate for contingency funds.”
The ruling comes after President Donald Trump threatened to withhold SNAP funding if Democrats did not reopen the government – a threat the White House brushed off.
Trump administration must fully fund SNAP: federal judge
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits through November.
The ruling, issued by a Rhode Island judge on Nov. 6, comes after plaintiffs argued the president is withholding SNAP benefits — relied on by 41 million Americans — as political leverage amidst the government shutdown.
Trump administration officials previously pledged to partially fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown.
The federal judge said SNAP benefits must be fully funded by Nov. 7.
Man who hurled a sandwich at federal officers in DC in protest found not guilty of assault
After deliberating for nearly seven hours, a jury in D.C. found Sean Charles Dunn, a former Justice Department employee now known as the “Sandwich Guy,” not guilty of misdemeanor assault on Thursday.
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Supreme Court allows Trump to block trans people from choosing sex markets on passports
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to enforce a rule preventing transgender or nonbinary people from choosing their own sex marker on their passports.
In a brief order, the conservative majority of the court said displaying a person’s sex at birth “no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth.”
“The government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the court said.
The liberal justice of the court forcefully dissented, saying the majority had “inflicted” injury on transgender or nonbinary people for a policy that would not harm anyone
“Such senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome has become an unfortunate pattern,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for the liberal justices.
“This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification. Because I cannot acquiesce to this pointless but painful perversion of our equitable discretion, I respectfully dissent.”
RFK Jr. says his views on connection between Tylenol and autism haven’t changed
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reaffirmed that his view remains unchanged on the unproven connection between Tylenol and autism.
“I’m not going to change until the science changes,” he told reporters during a White House press conference on weight-loss medication. “And the science does not look like it’s changing. It’s getting stronger and stronger every day.”
Trump indicates ICE raids in New York City will continue
President Trump indicated that ICE raids in New York City would continue following the election of Zohran Mamdani, who has pledged to take a hard line against the president’s immigration enforcement tactics.
“We have to get criminals out,” Trump told reporters. “Whether they’re in New York or anywhere else, we want to get them out.”
Trump reiterates call to end the filibuster
President Trump repeated his call for Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster in order to end the government shutdown, which is now the longest in U.S. history.
“I think it’s time to end the filibuster and put everyone back to work,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Video shows pharmaceutical executive falling over during press conference
RFK Jr. ‘rushed to get medical assistance’ after executive collapsed, White House says
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, was seen walking away from the man who collapsed during a White House press conference, sparking some criticism on social media.
Clarifying the incident, White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai wrote on X, “The Secretary rushed to get medical assistance while others tended to the man.”
Asked about weight-loss drug side effects, Trump says ‘it’s all positive’
When asked about potential risks associated with weight-loss drugs, President Donald Trump said, “I’ve heard about very little side effects with respect to these drugs.”
“It’s all positive,” he added. “That’s usually not the case.”
Dr. Oz says ‘forgotten man’ will now be able to afford weight-loss drugs
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said that ordinary Americans will now be able to access weight-loss medications.
“We are democratizing access to these medications,” he said during a White House press conference on Thursday. “The forgotten man will be able to afford these drugs now.”
Source: independent.co.uk
