By The NPR Network Published November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Eli Imadali / OPB A person picks out greens at One Life Food Pantry, located in Real Life Foursquare Church in Vancouver, Wash., on Nov. 1, 2025. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said she will hold food drives on her statewide budget listening tour, while Missouri is transferring funding to provide meals to seniors. Updated November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM CST A Rhode Island federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to find enough money to restore full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday. The government “failed to consider the harms individuals who rely on those benefits would suffer,” said U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell Jr. The ruling comes in response to a challenge filed by cities and nonprofits after the administration said it would halt funding on Nov. 1. McConnell and another federal judge in Boston ordered the government to use emergency funds to keep SNAP funding flowing, but Trump administration officials said it was only able to partially cover the payments. Starting Nov. 1, SNAP benefits did not hit accounts as scheduled after the USDA, which administers SNAP, citing the fed
