NPR News: 11-08-2025 5PM EST
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. |
| 0:05.2 | The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to block full-snap benefits for now. |
| 0:11.4 | And peers Amy Held explains. |
| 0:13.3 | More snap whiplash. |
| 0:15.0 | Several states had already said they were distributing full benefits, including California, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, after a judge Thursday |
| 0:22.4 | ordered the Trump administration to pay. But the high court's administrative stay means states |
| 0:27.5 | must now revert back to partial payments, at least until an appeals court weighs in. Sylvia |
| 0:32.9 | Lindsay and North Carolina got half her benefits Friday. Not enough, she says, for her and her grandson, |
| 0:39.1 | she supports who has autism. You're already down, and they want you to be even further down. |
| 0:44.9 | It's just really sad and disappointing. One in eight Americans rely on the program, mostly, very low-income |
| 0:51.4 | families, seniors, or people with disabilities. |
| 0:54.9 | Amy Held and PR News. |
| 0:57.2 | More than 1,400 flights around the country have been canceled |
| 1:00.1 | after the Trump administration ordered airports to cut flights |
| 1:04.0 | as the FAA deals with a shortage of air traffic controllers who are working without pay. |
| 1:09.8 | The FAA says the flights at 40 airports will be cut 10% on a phase-in basis as the government shut down, now on its 39th day, continues. Nick Deluconnell has more from the Charlotte Douglas Airport in Charlotte. |
| 1:23.8 | Inside the Charlotte terminal here, Jessica Lumuscio and her one-year-old daughter are trying to re-book after their flight to Manchester, New Hampshire, was canceled, leaving them scrambling to get to a family wedding. |
| 1:33.6 | It just makes it more complicated, right? |
| 1:36.0 | Especially with her, just to figure out, like, what's our plan? |
| 1:39.2 | How long do we stay here? |
| 1:40.6 | How long do you wait it out? |
| 1:42.0 | If you book again, is it going to get canceled again? |
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