Written By: Dan Mangan The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency block on a judge’s order that it pay 42 million Americans their full SNAP benefits for November by Friday as the federal government shutdown persists. The administration requested that the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals allow it to pay 65% of the food stamp benefits this month from a contingency fund, as the administration had proposed to the judge earlier this week. The request came a day after Judge Jack McConnell issued an order in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island rejecting the
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