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President Trump says he wants the courts to give his administration direction on using

contingency funds to pay for SNAP food assistant benefits that are set to expire tomorrow.

This after two federal judges today ruled the administration has to continue paying the benefits

despite the federal government shutdown. But it's not clear how fast that could happen.

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. Keep in mind that when you have a lapse in programs, oftentimes it may not be

possible to just flip that switch immediately, that you will see a gap there. Certainly at a

minimum, you would hope that at least partial payouts could be made so that you don't have a situation where

individuals have absolutely nothing. So I don't know logistically how this happens.

Speaking there on NPR's All Things Considered, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled today

that President Trump doesn't have the legal authority to order changes to the

national voter registration form and add a requirement to show documents proving citizenship.

And peers Jude Jaffe Block has more.

Trump signed an executive order in March that calls for sweeping changes to voting in election procedures,

including changing the national voter registration form to add a new requirement that would-be voters show proof of citizenship documents to register to vote.

Democrats and civil rights and voting groups sued, arguing the president doesn't have that authority.

The judge agreed, writing in her order on Friday, quote,

our Constitution entrusts Congress and the states, not the president, with the power to regulate federal elections. Neither the White House or the Justice Department responded immediately to

NPR's request for comment. Other parts of Trump's executive order on voting continued to be

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