Democrats seize on Trump administration’s efforts to fight food stamp payments
November 8, 2025
The Trump administration’s legal efforts to fight having to fully fund food stamps for millions of vulnerable Americans is creating an opening for Democrats eager to use the longest government shutdown in U.S. history to paint the president as callous and out of touch. The Supreme Court late Friday granted the administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order requiring them to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the shutdown. The legal maneuvering comes as both parties have tried to gain the political upper hand and blame the other for the shutdown as its impact is increasingly felt across the nation.