White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the Trump administration will pay out SNAP benefits as ordered by court — even though the president posted hours before that the funds “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!”
Trump thrust the November SNAP payments into confusion earlier Tuesday, when he said that SNAP benefits would be withheld until Democrats vote to end the government shutdown. That statement contradicted what his own administration told the courts Monday.
Leavitt insisted during a briefing that there was no conflict between the two statements.