U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
11/06/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/06/2025 18:50
Klobuchar Statement on Court Ordering the Administration to Pay Full SNAP Benefits
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following statement in response to today's federal district court order requiring the Administration to make full November SNAP payments by tomorrow.
"The court could not be more clear: the administration needs to stop playing politics with hunger and provide families in need with full food assistance," said Klobuchar. "The administration must take immediate action - as the court has required - to ensure families aren't left worrying any longer about putting food on the table."
Klobuchar, Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) led 43 colleagues in calling on USDA to release the funding at its disposal, using both contingency funds and its transfer authority, to ensure SNAP is funded in November. Klobuchar and Booker also opposed the USDA's decision not to use available contingency funds to extend SNAP benefits into November, despite having the legal authority to do so.
The Administration itself acknowledged in its now-deleted lapse of funding plan that Congressional intent is evident that SNAP operations should continue since multi-year contingency funds are available to pay for SNAP benefits and state administrative funds in the event of a shutdown.
Klobuchar and Luján also led the entire Senate Democratic Caucus in introducing the Keep SNAP and WIC Funded Act of 2025, legislation that prevents the Trump administration from illegally withholding available funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
Klobuchar also co-sponsors Senator Josh Hawley's (R-MO) bipartisan bill, the Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025, to fully fund SNAP through the end of the shutdown.
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