{"id":35483,"date":"2025-11-10T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35483\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:03:08","slug":"ny-nj-challenge-trumps-threats-to-snap-funding-amid-confusion-over-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35483\/","title":{"rendered":"NY, NJ challenge Trump\u2019s threats to SNAP funding amid confusion over payments"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge says the Trump administration can\u2019t revoke the federal food assistance benefits that states began issuing in full<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

New York and New Jersey resumed food stamps payments after a nearly week-long delay. At the same time, the Trump administration told states in a memo<\/a> that full payments were \u201cunauthorized\u201d and to \u201cimmediately undo\u201d them. The memo contradicted the USDA\u2019s own guidance issued the day before<\/a>, which said to pay the benefits in full. Instead, the Trump administration\u2019s memo directed states to issue partial payments, reduced by 35%.<\/p>\n

New Jersey said it had distributed SNAP payments to all recipients on Friday<\/a>, as all beneficiaries receive their monthly allotments during the first week of the month. New York is continuing to issue payments that began Sunday.<\/p>\n

The court ruling is the latest in a confusing cascade of orders, appeals and conflicting guidance as the Trump administration tries to stop fully funding SNAP during the government shutdown, which could end as soon as this week. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program helps 3 million New York state residents and 800,000 New Jerseyans afford their groceries.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is shocking and disgusting,\u201d New York Attorney General Letitia James said at a press conference Monday alongside the coalition of states suing the Trump administration<\/a> over its refusal to fund SNAP during the government shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is all the more galling when you consider that the federal government may reopen soon. What was the point of the federal government\u2019s cruelty this weekend? Why subject people to prolonged anxiety and fear, it is not an abstraction real people are hurting, they are hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Massachusetts judge on Monday blocked the USDA, which oversees SNAP, from reversing any funding or punishing states that had already distributed payments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis order ensures that families can keep the food assistance they need and that states won\u2019t be punished for doing their jobs. New Yorkers should not hesitate to use their rightful SNAP benefits as their cards are reloaded. If you have your benefits, use them. My office will deal with the federal government in court,\u201d James said in a statement.<\/p>\n

She said some stores were refusing to accept SNAP payments. Last week James\u2019 office sent cease-and-desist letters<\/a> to ShopRite and Hannaford following reports the grocery stores blocked people from using their EBT cards.<\/p>\n

“Chaos at the federal level doesn\u2019t change your responsibility to your customers,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n

Earlier Monday, an appeals court also ordered full SNAP payments be paid in November and the Trump administration said it would take the matter back to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a rolling disaster,\u201d said Robert Cordero, executive director of Grand Street Settlement, a social services organization. He said their food pantries saw a 25% increase in the last week, after SNAP payments were paused on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a burden and a lot of whiplash, every few hours there\u2019s a new appeal or a ruling or a stay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge says the Trump administration can\u2019t revoke the federal food assistance benefits that states began issuing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-35483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}