to update [9:44 PM Eastern]: The U.S. Supreme Court issued an administrative stay on Friday night, in response to the Trump administration’s emergency appeal of a SNAP funding issue.
Via our friend Professor Margot Cleveland:
Urgent: Stay outgoing. pic.twitter.com/813aYy0qk9
– Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) November 8, 2025
You can read the decision below:
Original story
As RedState wrote late Thursday afternoon, a federal district court ordered the Trump administration to pay the full amount of SNAP benefits for November, and required it to comply within 24 hours. They soon appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit:
On Thursday, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to resume USDA financial support for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. once again.
SEE: Federal judge orders USDA to fully fund SNAP
But on Friday afternoon, the Court of Appeal announced the bad news:
[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ] The Trump administration’s request to temporarily block a lower court ruling requiring the government to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) amid the government shutdown was denied on Friday.
This comes after the Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a memo to all state administrators of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that it will work to provide full funding for November on Friday. One report male “The USDA wrote in the memo that ‘later today’ it will complete the necessary processes to provide funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
Immediately management I filed an emergency petition In the United States Supreme Court, requesting a decision from the justices before 9:30 PM ET tonight.
JUST IN: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to halt — by 9:30 tonight — court orders requiring full SNAP benefits to be paid for November. pic.twitter.com/jzPsoTwS23
– Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 8, 2025
“Given the imminent and irreparable harm posed by these orders, which require the government to transfer an estimated $4 billion by tonight, the Solicitor General respectfully requests an immediate administrative stay of the orders pending resolution of this order no later than 9:30 p.m. this evening,” a Trump administration spokesperson told Fox News, in the story linked above.
Attorney General Pam Bondi also responded to the ruling after the Justice Department sent the petition to SCOTUS on Friday, Call the judge’s order “Judicial activism at its worst.” She continued in a series of posts
Nor should a single district court in Rhode Island be able to seize center stage on the shutdown, seeking to upend political negotiations that could produce quick policy solutions for SNAP and other programs, and dictating its own preferences on how scarce federal funds are spent.
With hours remaining before the TRO compliance clock was triggered, and waiting for the First Circuit to deny immediate relief until just minutes before, we filed an emergency stay motion in Superior Court seeking immediate relief.
Bondi also quoted from the recording:
As our Supreme Court brief says:
“Congress’s primary authority is that of finance, while the executive branch is charged with allocating limited resources across competing priorities. But here, the court below held the current shutdown to be an effective license to declare the federal government…
– Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@Agpambondi) November 7, 2025
“Congress’s primary authority is budgetary authority, while the executive branch is charged with allocating limited resources across competing priorities,” the brief said. “But here, the court below viewed the current lockout as an effective license to declare federal bankruptcy and appoint itself a trustee, charged with picking winners and losers from among those seeking a portion of the limited pool of remaining federal funds.”
You can read the full petition here.
This is a breaking story. RedState will provide updates as more information becomes available.
Editor’s Note: This article was updated after publication for clarity.
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