{"id":2508622,"date":"2025-11-10T06:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-circuit-court-of-appeals-rejects-trump-administrations-request-to-stop-full-snap-benefit-payments\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:53:39","slug":"first-circuit-court-of-appeals-rejects-trump-administrations-request-to-stop-full-snap-benefit-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-circuit-court-of-appeals-rejects-trump-administrations-request-to-stop-full-snap-benefit-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"First Circuit Court of Appeals rejects Trump administration&#8217;s request to stop full SNAP benefit payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-circuit-court-of-appeals-rejects-trump-administrations-request-to-stop-full-snap-benefit-payments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2508622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston rejected the Trump management&#8217;s request to halt full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit payments to 42 million recipients during the government shutdown. The court upheld a previous district court ruling requiring full SNAP payments,criticizing the administration for delays and failures that harmed beneficiaries.The court found the government&#8217;s decision to withhold benefits &#8220;arbitrary and capricious&#8221; and emphasized the severe harm caused by stopping payments outweighed financial concerns cited by the administration. Although the ruling was temporarily paused following a Supreme Court order by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the First Circuit&#8217;s decision highlighted the administration&#8217;s mishandling and reaffirmed the necessity of distributing full SNAP benefits during the crisis.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">First Circuit Court of Appeals rejects Trump administration&rsquo;s request to stop full SNAP benefit payments<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2395688\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts, ruled against the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/page\/2\/\">Trump administration<\/a> regarding the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The court denied a request by the Trump administration to block a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-appeals-court-hands-texas-a-major-border-win-over-the-biden-administration\/\" title=\"Federal ... ... Hands Texas a Major Border Win Over the Biden ...\">district court&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s previous ruling that full SNAP benefits were to be paid to all 42 million recipients during the shutdown. Additionally, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26221576-snap\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-asian-discrimination-appeal-harvard-talks-out-of-both-sides-of-its-mouth\/\" title=\"In Asian Discrimination Appeal, Harvard Talks out of Both Sides of Its Mouth\">district court found<\/a><\/a> that the government&rsquo;s choice &ldquo;not to make full <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/snap\/\">SNAP<\/a> payments was likely arbitrary and capricious.&rdquo; Moreover, the court ruled that the district court&rsquo;s earlier decision was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/11\/10\/snap-payments-ruling-first-circuit\/\">appropriate<\/a> insofar as&nbsp;&ldquo;the overwhelming evidence of widespread harm&rdquo; from stopping SNAP benefits was more detrimental than the reasons the Trump administration provided to want to stop payments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3877607\/presidential-emergency-powers-looming-issue-supreme-court\/\">Presidential emergency powers a looming issue at the Supreme Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3880199\/steve-daines-shuttle-diplomacy-asia-trump\/\">Steve Daines carves out shuttle diplomacy lane as Asia expert for Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3876714\/unexploded-ordnance-gaza-threat-continues-despite-ceasefire\/\">Unexploded ordnance will long threaten Gazans despite tenuous ceasefire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Moreover, the First Circuit Court also issued a scathing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26221576-snap\/\">criticism<\/a> of the Trump administration, stating that the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/11\/10\/snap-payments-ruling-first-circuit\/\">issues<\/a> stemming from the lack of SNAP benefits distribution &ldquo;could have been avoided.&rdquo; And it was also critical of the Trump administration&rsquo;s request for a stay to withhold SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In reviewing the district court&rsquo;s balancing of the equities, we also cannot ignore the particular events preceding this litigation,&rdquo; read official court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26221576-snap\/\">documents<\/a>. &ldquo;As the district court found, &lsquo;this is a problem that could have been avoided.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The record here shows that the government sat on its hands for nearly a month, unprepared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-trump-admin-to-use-child-nutrition-funds-to-issue-full-snap-benefits\/\" title=\"Judge orders Trump admin to use child nutrition funds to issue ...\">make partial payments<\/a>, while people who rely on SNAP received no benefits a week into November and counting,&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26221576-snap\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> the First Circuit Court. &ldquo;In light of these unique facts, we cannot conclude that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/power-grabbing-wi-judges-learning-from-rogue-federal-jurists\/\" title=\"Power-Grabbing WI Judges Learning From Rogue Federal Jurists\">district court abused<\/a> its discretion in requiring full payment of November SNAP benefits to effectuate the October 31 temporary restraining order after the government had failed to comply with it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The court was also critical of the Trump administration&rsquo;s request for a stay to withhold SNAP benefits, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26221576-snap\/\">claiming<\/a> that &ldquo;the government has failed to show it is entitled to the extraordinary relief of a stay. It has not made a strong showing that it is likely to succeed on the merits. Nor does it refute the extensive record evidence of the enormous injury to individuals around the country that a stay would cause.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3878248\/where-every-senate-republican-stands-trump-end-filibuster\/\"><strong>WHERE EVERY SENATE REPUBLICAN STANDS ON TRUMP&rsquo;S CALL TO END THE FILIBUSTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do not take lightly the government&rsquo;s concern that money used to fund November SNAP payments will be unavailable for other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >important nutrition assistance programs<\/a>,&rdquo; read <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26221576-snap\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comments<\/a> by the First Circuit Court. &ldquo;But we cannot conclude that the district court abused its discretion in determining that the overwhelming evidence of widespread harm that a stay would cause right now, by leaving tens of millions of Americans without food as winter approaches, outweighed the potential monetary harm to the government and CNP, months into the future. Thus, we reject the government&rsquo;s stay request as to the order&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So, the First Circuit ruled against the Trump administration&rsquo;s request to stop the distribution of SNAP benefits. However, due to last week&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/07\/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-snap-benefits-ruling-00643639\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruling by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a>, the First Court&rsquo;s ruling was on hold from going into effect for 48 hours, which, at this point, would be late Tuesday night.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Circuit denies Trump request to halt full SNAP payments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2508623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25307563463690.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[66769,34206,32640],"class_list":["post-2508622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-first-circuit-court","tag-snap-benefits","tag-trump-administration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25307563463690.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508626,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508622\/revisions\/2508626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}