Meanwhile, a federal judge has laid out a path for the administration to fund SNAP benefits, which ran out on Saturday, saying the administration could tap more than $5 billion in emergency funds, as well as a much larger pot of tariff revenue collected by the Agriculture Department to fund the program.

A federal court told the Trump administration that it must start funding food stamps this week to help keep low-income Americans fed during the government shutdown, but it was unclear if the White Ho...

Justice Department lawyers have argued it isn’t possible to provide partial benefits for the program that spends up to $9 billion per month from a $5 billion contingency fund.