Trump returned the SNAP act to the Supreme Court, in order to keep funds frozen

Question

SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is a program that acts to provide funds in the form of food stamps to allow low-income people and families to afford basic necessities like food. In October, President Trump refused to continue funding for the program, saying that November the government would stop all payments going to the states for the program. Now, he is also telling the states to not put money towards the program, and has even gone as far as to send it back to the Supreme Court to keep funds away from the program. Many families are now struggling to find the money to put food on the table, and working class people are stepping up to aid their communities through food banks and donations.

Answer 1

Yes, this claim is true. During the government shutdown in November of 2025, President Trump pushed for the Supreme Court to have full payments in the SNAP program frozen while the government was shut down. The Supreme Court allowed the Trump Administration to withhold about $4billion in payments from SNAP that a federal judge had previously ordered. Almost 42 million people rely on SNAP, which stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (commonly known as food stamps), for their household food supplies. This was the first time in the SNAP program's 61-year history that benefits have lapsed due to a government shutdown.

I did not find any primary sources on this topic, but I did find a plethora of secondary sources. The first secondary source that I found was from NBC News, which is rated by many professionals to be trustworthy for news and data. I watched a news clip of what happened with Trump and SNAP. It stated that the Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court decision on Nov. 7, and could withhold about $4billion from people who usually receive SNAP benefits. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-administration-asks-emergency-pause-judges-order-fully-fund-snap-rcna242545 The second secondary source that I found is from PBS, which gave the info that lower courts had ruled previously that the government must keep full SNAP payments going, despite the shutdown. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-renews-supreme-court-appeal-to-keep-full-snap-payments-frozen

There could be potential biases in both of these sources, since they are written by journalists of the Associated Press, and I do not know what their political views are. However, in the articles, specific facts are stated with no wording that demonstrates any bias, so I assume that there is no bias going on. The evidence that supports the claim that I am fact-checking is that of the amount of money withheld in SNAP benefits, the month that this occurred in, and how the Supreme Court was involved.

There is not really a way for me to contact any of the reporters who wrote these articles, since there is no interface within the website to email or dm them.