US to Send SNAP Funds Despite Trump Post, White House Says (1)

The Trump administration will comply with a court order by providing partial food assistance benefits, the White House said, an apparent walk-back of President Donald Trump’s threat to deny aid to low-income Americans until the government reopens.

“The administration is fully complying with the court order,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday.

Earlier, Trump posted on social media that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program money “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before.” Such a move would run the risk of defying a court order that ...