Political and Legislative
Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Food Stamp Cutbacks for 700,000 Americans
A federal judge struck down a Trump administration rule that would have reduced food stamp benefits to nearly 700,000 people.
In her Sunday ruling, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell wrote that implementing the change “radically and abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans.”
In December, the Department of Agriculture formalized a proposal for work requirements for recipients of food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that would have disqualified an estimated 688,000 people from food benefits.
