Trump administration says it will partially pay for SNAP

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

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The Trump administration says it will restart SNAP food benefits for the nearly 42 million Americans that receive them, but that it will pay out only half the amount people normally get. A federal judge ruled that the government must continue funding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on an emergency basis after the food assistance program ran out of money this weekend. We get the latest from NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Then, as some Head Start early learning programs close across the country due to the government shutdown, we check in with how the community is coming together to keep doors open for a few hundred low-income children in Florida.

Then, on Monday, International Criminal Court prosecutors at The Hague said they are collecting evidence of alleged mass killings and rapes in Sudan. The New York Times' Declan Walsh joins us.

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0:00.0	Support for here and now anytime comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design.
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0:17.5	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:25.6	At first, I was getting $296.
0:28.0	Cut me back to $68.
0:31.6	Now, for $68, I have nothing.
0:33.6	It means I have to find more food banks.
0:40.1	The Trump administration says it will restart SNAP food benefits, but only pay half the amount nearly 42 million Americans normally get.
0:51.0	It's Monday, November 3rd, and this is herein now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.
0:58.1	I'm Shiko The Uli.
1:01.6	Today on the show, the head of the Urban League in Tallahassee is trying to keep Head
1:06.4	Start programs open for kids in his community.
1:09.4	Just because the government shut down, we can't shut down on our children.
1:14.6	And the worst humanitarian crisis in the world is getting worse.
1:18.6	Paramilitary forces are killing waves of people in Sudan.
1:22.6	I have not seen a conflict so neglected.
1:25.6	A lot more can be done.
1:35.8	But first, today, the Trump administration says it will make partial payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
1:42.1	This, after a federal judge ordered the government to continue funding SNAP benefits on an emergency basis,
1:45.1	after the program ran out of money this weekend.
1:49.4	NPR's national correspondent Jennifer Lutton joined Scott Tong with the latest.
1:57.2	It says it will use a contingency fund that is within the Agriculture Department that is set up for this.
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