Trump Administration to Provide Full SNAP Benefits for NovemberElizabeth Weibel 7 Nov 2025
The Trump administration announced that it would be doling out full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for the month of November, after previously appealing a court order mandating full SNAP benefits.
In a memo, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) revealed that the agency’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) was “working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issues” in order to comply with a court order. The memo added that “later today,” FNS would be completing processes in order to make “funds available” for SNAP.
“FNS is working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances in compliance with the November 6, 2025, order from the District Court of Rhode Island,” the USDA’s memo said. “Later today, FNS will complete the process necessary to make funds available to support your subsequent transmittal of full issuance files to your EBT processor.”
The USDA’s memo comes after the Department of Justice (DOJ) “filed a notice of appeal” in response to an order from U.S. District Judge John McConnell from Rhode Island on Thursday, giving the Trump administration a day to “make full payment” of SNAP benefits for November, according to USA Today.
On Friday, the DOJ requested that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit pause McConnell’s order:
The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal Nov. 6 — the same day Rhode Island federal judge John McConnell ordered the administration to make full payment of November SNAP benefits to the states within a day. On Nov. 7, it asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to halt McConnell’s order by 4:00 p.m. EDT.
“There is no lawful basis for an order that direct (the U.S. Department of Agriculture) to somehow find $4 billion in the metaphorical couch cushions,” the administration said in its request.
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