Governor Wes Moore today announced the release of $62 million to ensure full November SNAP benefits for Marylanders. Authorized by executive order, the funding represents the State’s contribution to making SNAP recipients whole following a federal judge’s order that the Trump Administration provide contingency funding for the program. “One of the first and most basic priorities of governing is to ensure that families do not go hungry,” said Gov. Moore. “We will continue to do everything in our power to protect our people in these difficult times. But no state can fill the enormous gap created by Donald Trump and his administration. It’s time for the federal government to do its job and fully fund food assistance.” At the end of October, Maryland joined a coalition of states in suing the Trump administration for suspending SNAP benefits in federal court in Massachusetts amid the ongoing federal government shutdown. Concurrently, private individuals sued the Trump Administration in federal court in Rhode Island. On Friday, both federal district courts found that the federal government was violating the law by withholding SNAP funds, with the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ordering the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use contingency funds to pay for SNAP. […]
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