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Trump administration ordered to fully fund food stamp benefits for November [SOUND]

# A US federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered president Donald Trump’s administration to find the money by today to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme, also known as food stamps, for November. This comes after the Department of Agriculture took the unprecedented step of halting benefits for this month, saying the programme had run out of funding amid the government shutdown. More than 42-million Americans receive SNAP benefits. Vice president JD Vance says the ruling is absurd:

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