Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges’ rulings

In a tele-town hall, Trump said Virginians should “vote for Republicans up and down the ballot” and doubled down on his support for Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares. Despite throwing barbs at Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for governor, the president avoided key opportunities to fully endorse Republican Winsome Earle-Sears by name. Earle-Sears did not speak during the call.

“Republicans will bring back everything that you want,” Trump said. “You’re going to have crime way down. You’re going to have energy way down.”

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who is term-limited, seemingly attempted to shift the conversation back to Earle-Sears after the president ended his remarks.

“My friends, this is a moment for us to stand strong as Virginians … and vote Republican down the line,” Youngkin said. “Winsome, John Reid, Jason Miyares and for the delegate in your district.”

Amid their ongoing carriage dispute, YouTube TV says that Disney’s request to temporarily bring ABC back to its platform for Election Day would cause customer confusion — and is instead proposing that the entertainment giant agrees to immediately restore both ABC and ESPN while the two sides continue negotiations.

“Publicly resorting to the same tactic that Disney relied on in past disputes fails to acknowledge the distinction between YouTube and other distribution platforms,” Google-owned YouTube said in an email to Disney leadership, which it also published online.

YouTube noted that Disney can continue to livestream news content on its own YouTube pages. It also said that the “vast majority” of YouTube TV subscribers chose not to watch ABC the last two U.S. election days.

The president in a social media post on the eve of New York City’s election said voters “really have no choice” but to support independent candidate and former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was a high-profile foe of Trump’s during the president’s first term.

“You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job,” Trump said.

He trashed Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani in the post and predicted the demise of the nation’s largest city if he wins. If that happens, Trump said it is “highly unlikely” he will be sending federal funds to New York City.

But Trump has already sought to block or slash federal funds going to the city related to counterterrorism initiatives and grants aimed at addressing the costs of migrants. He’s also suspended funding some infrastructure projects during the government shutdown and suggested he may make the hold permanent.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children received an additional $450 million in funding, according to a senior administration official who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the decision publicly.

The WIC program helps low-income mothers buy nutritious staples.

Last month, some states warned they only had enough money to operate their WIC programs until mid-November because of the government shutdown. The administration last month reallocated $300 million in unspent tariff revenue to keep the program running.

Politico first reported on the funding Monday afternoon.

A bitter carriage dispute between Disney and YouTube TV has left customers of Google’s livestreaming platform without channels like ABC or ESPN for several days now. But Disney said it has requested a partial reprieve for Tuesday’s elections.

“We believe in putting the public interest first and hope YouTube TV will take this small step for their customers while we continue to work toward a fair agreement,” the entertainment giant said in a statement.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

When the dispute reached its boiling point last week, YouTube TV maintained that Disney was proposing terms that would be too costly for its subscribers. Meanwhile, Disney said the streamer had refused to pay fair rates.

“I think that they should be restructured totally. This is urban warfare—what they’re doing is unacceptable,” Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said in a statement.

The caucus, which includes all Hispanic Democrats in Congress, will develop a framework alongside the Hispanic Federation and other advocacy groups to “restore accountability, protect civil rights, and ensure that no community lives in fear of those sworn to serve them,” said Espaillat.

The framework focuses on reform, oversight and transparency efforts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some progressive Democrats, including some Hispanic Caucus members, have called for the abolition of ICE.

The Congressional Hispanic Conference, which consists of all Hispanic Republicans, in June urged the Trump administration to focus enforcement efforts on violent criminals instead of “individuals who do not constitute an immediate threat to public safety.”

Majority Leader John Thune made brief comments as he opened the Senate for the week.

Asked if he was confident, he turned at the chamber doorway and said, “Don’t push it.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said a measure on Tuesday’s election ballot that would redraw U.S. House maps wasn’t about drawing lines, but about standing up to a bully.

The ballot measure would create partisan U.S. House maps outside of routine once-a-decade redistricting that in California is handled by an independent commission. It’s an effort by Newsom, a Democrat, to counter a Trump-backed plan in Texas to gain five more Republican seats.

Newsom, a leading critic of Trump and possible candidate for the White House in 2028, spoke Monday to a labor union hall full of cheering union workers about to phone bank in effort to pass Proposition 50.

“They poked the bear, and the bear is poking back,” he said, as the room erupted in applause.

Newsom was joined on stage by former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic representatives from California, who all spoke of the damage they said Trump’s administration has done.

Top Democrats in the Senate aren’t satisfied with the Trump administration committing to partially funding the food assistance program known as SNAP.

The program costs about $8 billion per month nationally. The government says an emergency fund it will use during the government shutdown has $4.65 billion — enough to cover about half the normal benefits.

“USDA has the authority to fully fund SNAP and needs to do so immediately. Anything else is unacceptable,” tweeted Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.

“Trump should have paid SNAP benefits all along,” tweeted Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee. “Just now paying the bare minimum to partially fund SNAP is not enough, and it is not acceptable.”

Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are closely watching Tuesday’s election, particularly the high-profile gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.

“America’s heading in the wrong direction. And there is a better way that Democrats are offering,” said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday. “And that’s why I believe we’re going to see significant Democratic victories across America.”

The results could offer the clearest indication yet of how the messaging in the shutdown fight is resonating with voters. Jeffries said the election will show Democrats “are on the right side of the American people.”

“That’s what this fight has been all about,” he said.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday she’s approved the deployment of 100 National Guard members to Washington, D.C. to support the DC guard’s “ongoing civil security operations.”

Sanders’ office said the guard members will assemble in the coming weeks and move to the Washington region after Thanksgiving. The mission is expected to last several months.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak Monday evening at telephone rallies in the two states that will be electing governors on Tuesday’s off-year elections.

Trump has previously endorsed Republican Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey and held a telephone rally for him last month. But he had not declared support for Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee in Virginia.

Former President Barack Obama rallied on Saturday with the Democratic candidates Mikie Sherrill, in New Jersey, and Abigail Spanberger, in Virginia, urging voters to cast their vote to reject Trump’s policies 10 months into his second presidency.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia on Monday visited a market near downtown run by Goodr, a group that provides food. Warnock said Trump chose SNAP benefits at risk.

“SNAP recipients were not in this fight,” Warnock said.” They were dragged into this fight by the administration. And so I want you to think about this: They are literally pitting sick people against hungry people. I can’t think of anything more craven than that.”

The Georgia Democrat called on Trump to broker negotiations.

“What has he been doing during the shutdown?” Warnock asked. “I think there was a ‘Great Gatsby’ Halloween party over the weekend, putting a wrecking ball to the East Wing of the White House, while putting a wrecking ball to our economy.”

Warnock dismissed talk of Senate Republicans abolishing the filibuster to pass spending legislation and end the shutdown.
“If you don’t have the votes, common sense says you have to talk to the people in the other party,” he said.

President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required it to keep the food aid program running.

It’s not clear how much beneficiaries will receive, nor how quickly beneficiaries will see value show up on the debit cards they use to buy groceries. The process of loading the cards, which involves steps by state and federal government agencies and vendors, can take up to two weeks in some states. The average monthly benefit is usually about $190 per person.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the nation’s largest food program, said last month that benefits for November wouldn’t be paid out due to the federal government shutdown. That set off a scramble by food banks, state governments and the nearly 42 million Americans who receive the aid to find ways to ensure access to groceries.

Most states have boosted aid to food banks, and some are setting up systems to reload benefit cards with state taxpayer dollars.

▶ Read more about SNAP funding

Shortages of air traffic controllers are straining operations — with flight disruptions piling up nationwide — as the shutdown drags on. Newark Airport in New Jersey experienced delays of two to three hours on Sunday, and busy hubs like George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago O’Hare saw dozens of weekend disruptions.

Experts, as well as union leaders representing air traffic controllers and security screeners, warn of significantly worse impacts the longer workers go without a paycheck. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers had been working without pay for weeks.

▶ Here is what to know about your rights as a passenger

The United States is working with both sides in Sudan’s war for a possible humanitarian truce in Darfur, a U.S. envoy told The Associated Press on Monday, while International Criminal Court prosecutors try to preserve evidence from a rampage through a besieged city.

The World Health Organization said gunmen killed at least 460 people at a hospital and abducted doctors and nurses as the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group fighting Sudanese troops, captured el-Fasher after besieging it for 18 months. Witnesses reported RSF fighters going house to house, killing civilians and committing sexual assaults.

An ICC statement said the latest alleged atrocities “may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The United Arab Emirates, a U.S. ally, has been repeatedly accused of arming the RSF, which it has strenuously denied despite evidence to the contrary.

▶ Read more on developments in Sudan

Microsoft said Monday it will be shipping Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence chips to the United Arab Emirates as part of a deal approved by the U.S. Commerce Department.

The Redmond, Washington software giant said licenses approved in September under “stringent” safeguards enable it to ship more than 60,000 Nvidia chips, including the California chipmaker’s advanced GB300 Grace Blackwell chips, for use in data centers in the Middle Eastern country. The UAE has pleged to invest $1.4 trillion in U.S. energy and AI-related projects.

The agreement appeared to contradict Trump’s remarks in a “60 Minutes” interview aired Sunday that such chips would not be exported outside the U.S. “The most advanced, we will not let anybody have them other than the United States,” Trump said.

The GOP leader said it’s “not as easy as pressing ‘go’ ‘send’ on a computer.”

Johnson, R-La., stood by his previous assessment that the Trump administration was unable to release contingency funds to ensure the food aid kept flowing over the weekend.

“Made sense to me,” he said during a morning press conference at the Capitol.

Now that courts have ruled that the SNAP funds must be released, he said the Trump administration is waiting for direction on how to do that.

Rep. Mike Johnson says he spoke with the president multiple times over the weekend as the government shutdown is on track to become the longest ever.

Trump has repeatedly called on the Republicans to use their majority hold on the Senate to nuke the filibuster. GOP leaders are not interested in undoing the longstanding rule that requires 60 votes to advance legislation, which serves as a check on majority power.

Democrats, now with a 53-47 Senate minority, are using the filibuster to block legislation to reopen government as they hold out for health care funds.

Johnson said that the filibuster, while frustrating, serves as an “important safeguard” both parties use to block measures they oppose.

“I obviously shared my thoughts with the president on that,” Johnson-R-La., said at his daily press conference.

Gains by Nvidia, Palantir Technologies and other companies developing artificial-intelligence were keeping the S&P 500 near its all-time high on Monday, offsetting declines in most other stocks following a discouraging signal on the health of U.S. manufacturing.

Treasury yields dipped after manufacturing contracted by more last month than economists expected. It’s “a reflection of continuing economic uncertainty,” according to Susan Spence, chair of the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing business survey committee.

“Wonder has turned to concern regarding how the tariff threats are affecting our business,” a chemical products manufacturer told the ISM’s survey. “Orders are down across most divisions, and we’ve lowered our financial expectations for 2025.”

“In general, business is really strained,” another manufacturer told the survey.

The leader of the largest union representing Environmental Protection Agency workers says any deal to reopen the government must include funding for healthcare.

Justin Chen, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, said Monday that “the very foundation of EPA’s mission is to protect human health. We cannot build a healthy nation while denying Americans the right to access affordable healthcare.’'

Chen’s statement puts the EPA union at odds with its broader national leadership. AFGE President Everett Kelley, whose union represents more than 800,000 government workers, said last week that it was “time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship.”

In statements issued separately, Chen and Kelley agreed that civil servants should not be used as political pawns in the ongoing standoff.

Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, barred federal deployments of the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday, siding with the city and state against the Trump administration.

The ruling late Sunday followed a three-day trial in which both sides argued over whether protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building met the conditions for using the military domestically under federal law. Immergut said she would issue a final order on Friday due to the voluminous evidence presented at trial, including more than 750 exhibits.

▶ Read more about litigation over troop deployments

One year after Trump retook the White House and began dramatically expanding executive power, the Republican president figures prominently in state and local elections. More than half of the states will hold contests on Tuesday.

The results of those contests — the first general election of Trump’s second term — will be heralded by the victors as either a major repudiation or resounding stamp of approval of his second-term agenda. That’s especially true in high-profile races for Virginia and New Jersey governor, New York City mayor and a California proposition to redraw its congressional district boundaries.

▶ Read more about the major statewide and local races on ballots

New York City’s mayoral candidates are working to get voters to the polls on Tuesday, the big finale of the race to lead America’s biggest city.

Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa spent the final stretch campaigning at a frenetic pace. Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist who would be the city’s first Muslim mayor, jolted the political world when he defeated Cuomo in the primary with an energetic campaign focused on making the city a more affordable place to live.

Early voting ended Sunday with more than 735,000 ballots cast. In the last mayoral general election, only 169,879 in-person early voting ballots were cast.

▶ Follow developments in the New York City mayor’s race

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey deployed up to 300 Guard members to Washington, D.C., through the end of November to support Trump’s crime-fighting efforts. A civic organization, the West Virginia Citizen Action Group, said state law limits out-of-state deployments to certain purposes, such as responding to a natural disaster or another state’s emergency request. Morrisey’s office has argued the deployment was authorized under federal law.

While Trump issued an executive order in August declaring a crime emergency in the nation’s capital, the U.S. Justice Department says violent crime there is at a 30-year low. Within a month, more than 2,300 Guard troops from eight states and the district were patrolling under the Army secretary’s command. A federal judge has yet to rule on District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s request for an order to remove them.

Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities has unleashed a whirlwind of lawsuits and overlapping court rulings. The latest legal efforts include Monday’s hearing before Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal in Nashville.

Tennessee Democrats contend in a lawsuit that Republican Gov. Bill Lee cannot deploy the Tennessee National Guard for civil unrest unless there is rebellion or invasion, and even then, it would require action by state lawmakers.

Trump announced in September that the National Guard would accompany authorities from a slew of federal agencies as part of the so-called Memphis Safe Task Force. Since their arrival on Oct. 10, National Guard troops have been patrolling neighborhoods and commercial areas, wearing fatigues and protective vests that say “military police.” The U.S. Marshals Service has tallied more than 1,500 arrests and thousands of traffic citations.

The U.S. Defense Secretary visited the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas on Monday with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back. Then they received a briefing at Observation Post Ouellette, a site near the military demarcation line where Trump and other past U.S. presidents have peered across the border.

Hegseth and Ahn also visited the Panmunjom border village, where an armistice was signed to pause the 1950-53 Korean War. Hegseth did not mention North Korea, which has ignored calls for dialogue from Washington and Seoul and accelerated nuclear weapons and missile programs.

▶ Read more about the U.S.-South Korean military alliance

“I think they have to,” Trump said during the “60 Minutes” interview. “And if they don’t vote, it’s their problem.”

With Senate Democrats now voting 13 times against reopening the government, insisting they need Trump and Republicans to negotiate with them first, Trump said Republican leaders should change Senate rules and scrap the filibuster.

“Republicans have to get tougher,” Trump told CBS. “If we end the filibuster, we can do exactly what we want.”

Senate Republicans have repeatedly rejected that idea, arguing that requiring 60 votes to overcome any objections is vital to the Senate, and has allowed them to stop Democratic policies when they’re in the minority.

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