Attorney General Kwame Raoul continues to push for SNAP recipients to receive the benefits to which they are entitled.
In a statement issued after a Friday night Supreme Court order blocked an early court order requiring USDA to fund SNAP benefits fully, Raoul says it is reprehensible that the Trump administration continues to play politics with SNAP benefits, knowing that children, older Americans, people with disabilities, and families across the country will go hungry. He feels it is unconscionable that the Trump administration would go so far as to seek U.S. Supreme Court intervention – on a Friday night – to prevent Americans from eating when funds are available to provide the much-needed benefits.
Raoul says he is forcefully urging the federal government to follow the law and distribute SNAP benefits with all due haste to the tens of millions of people who depend on them. He says Illinois is evaluating all legal options and will not sit idly by when so many of our residents and neighbors are in need.
