Judge Orders Trump to Pay Full SNAP Benefits

"People have gone without for too long," Connell said from the bench Thursday, CNN reports.

"Not making payments to them for even another day is simply unacceptable," the Obama-appointed Rhode Island-based judge said.

"This should never happen in America," added McConnell, according to the New York Times.

"Senate Democrats have voted 14 times against reopening the government," a spokesperson from the USDA said in a statement.

"This compromises not only SNAP, but farm programs, food inspection, animal and plant disease protection, rural development, and protecting federal lands."

"The defendants failed to consider the practical consequences associated with this decision to only partially fund SNAP," McConnell said, according to AP.

"They knew that there would be a long delay in paying partial SNAP payments and failed to consider the harms individuals who rely on those benefits would suffer."

"Today is a major victory for 42 million people in America," Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, a legal group that represents the plaintiffs, said in a statement Thursday.

"The court could not be more clear — the Trump-Vance administration must stop playing politics with people's lives by delaying SNAP payments they are obligated to issue."