The lawsuit two lawsuits against the USDA have reached the same conclusion. That USDA must use its $5.25 billion emergency fund to pay for SNAP. The MASSIVE issue with this though is that the program costs USDA $9 billion a month so they cannot pay for the program in its entirety.

Partial payments have never been issued by the USDA due to every state having to redo the math over benefits owed and that would take weeks. Monday a plan has been ordered to be presented to the court by one of the judges while the other ordered that the benefits be paid out as quickly as possible.

The plaintiffs in these two lawsuits wanted the courts to also order the USDA to use a different source called Section 32 funds which come from custom receipts so that the whole SNAP program could be covered. Both Obama appointed judges declines and said that those funds are solely in the hands of the Admin for discretion on whether or not to use them and cannot be ordered to do so.

The Justice Department has not decided whether to appeal this decision or not. USDA has hinted at there possibly being a more or less "bank run" on SNAP benefits with the use of emergency funds as everyone will try to use them before the money runs out.