Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily halted an order requiring the Trump administration make full Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) November payments by Friday. Jackson’s ruling pauses some of the payments until the U.

The justice’s order came after the Trump administration raced to the Supreme Court ahead of a lower-court deadline to pay full SNAP benefits.

People in some U.S. states are able to buy groceries with federally funded SNAP benefits this weekend while those elsewhere are still waiting for November food benefits delayed by a protracted legal battle over the federal government shutdown.

Many Illinois families are still wondering how they will put food on the table after a U.S. Supreme Court justice put an order on hold late Friday that would have required the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP payments for November.

Weeks of uncertainty during the longest government shutdown in American history have left some states struggling to issue payments to food stamp recipients.

The state says it distributed full benefits to 32,000 SNAP recipients before the Justice issued her order. However, payments for the remaining 560,000 Coloradans enrolled in the program remain blocked. Colorado officials said they had received no updated guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as of late Friday night.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to temporarily withhold $4 billion needed for SNAP benefits amid a government shutdown. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's administrative stay offers more time for lower courts to decide on funding issues.

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