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Welcome back to Unbiased Politics. Today is Thursday, November 13th. Let's talk about some news.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to extend its pause on a lower court's order that required the administration to fully fund

SNAP benefits for the month of November. Now, we talked about the previous Supreme Court order

in depth on Monday. So I don't really want to spend too much time on this, especially now that

the government is reopened. But I do want to explain what the Supreme Court's newest order means and why it happened.

So we'll do sort of a quick recap and then we'll talk, yeah, we'll talk about this most recent order and, you know, whether it even matters now that the government has reopened.

So as we discussed on Monday, when SNAP funding expired

at the end of October amid the government shutdown, several states went ahead and sued the administration.

And they argued that the federal government had an obligation to fund SNAP and that it needed

to tap into what's called the contingency fund to help cover November benefit payments despite the shutdown.

And once that lawsuit was filed, the district court went ahead and ordered the administration

to fund November benefits.

And what it said is, listen, you guys can either pay partial benefits using the contingency fund

or you can fully fund November stat

benefits using additional resources, additional sources of money. The administration chose the

partial payment option, but it did not meet the court's deadline for payment. And that ultimately

led the court to issue a second order that required

full payment of November SNAP benefits. The administration no longer had an option.

So the administration then goes ahead in appeals that ruling to the First Circuit Court of

Appeals and requested an administrative stay pending appeal, which is a temporary order that

pauses a lower court's ruling when the case

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