Subject: SNAP
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In court filings, submitted late Wednesday, the Trump administration reaffirmed its opposition to provisioning the funds absent a broader spending deal in Congress. Lawyers for the Justice Department acknowledged that an interruption to food stamps would create a “difficult situation for millions of Americans,” but they insisted the court did not have the ability to prevent it.

Officials told the court that the law did not allow them to transfer or spend money that Congress had not appropriated, or in ways that lawmakers did not intend. That, they said, precluded many of the avenues that states have suggested for funding SNAP during the shutdown.