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(NewsNation) — Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins confirmed to NewsNation connected Wednesday that the Trump medication volition usage contingency funds to supply partial SNAP benefits successful November.
Last week, two judges issued rulings ordering the Trump medication to usage the astir $5 cardinal successful contingency backing acceptable speech by Congress to money SNAP amid the ongoing authorities shutdown.
Rollins told NewsNation that adjacent though the medication doesn't judge it is law to usage the funding, "The president said, 'Let's get these benefits to the radical that request them the most.'"
She explained that the "contingency money is reliant connected the information that there's an ... underlying and appropriated program, which determination isn't close now."
Approximately 42 cardinal Americans, oregon astir 1 successful 8, trust connected the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known arsenic nutrient stamps, to marque ends meet.
In effect to a question astir erstwhile the funds would beryllium available, Rollins replied: "It depends connected the state. (Be)cause they each person antithetic structures."
Trump contradicts erstwhile statements
In a societal media station Tuesday, Trump contradicted previous White House statements that it would money 50% of SNAP benefits for November utilizing the contingency funds, arsenic antecedently reported by NewsNation.
“SNAP BENEFITS, which accrued by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous word successful bureau (Due to the information that they were haphazardly “handed” to anyone for the asking, arsenic opposed to conscionable those successful need, which is the intent of SNAP!), volition beryllium fixed lone erstwhile the Radical Left Democrats unfastened up government, which they tin easy do, and not before! Thank you for your attraction to this matter,” he said.
However, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt clarified to reporters that the president is not readying to defy the tribunal order.
“The champion mode to get the afloat magnitude of SNAP benefits is to reopen the government,” she said. “The president doesn’t privation to support dipping into this contingency fund.”
