MADISON — Hours after a federal court ordered the Trump Administration to stop withholding SNAP (known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) payments to states and directed the administration to use billions of dollars in readily available federal funding to provide food assistance payments to millions of Americans, Gov. Evers tonight announced the Evers Administration has immediately moved to pay full November payments for all Wisconsin FoodShare members.

The Trump Administration recently directed states to suspend payments for food assistance, jeopardizing basic food access for nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, including nearly 270,000 kids, due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. Days after Wisconsin FoodShare ran out of funding on November 1, which left hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites without access to basic food and groceries, the Evers Administration tonight immediately moved to implement the court decision and make full November FoodShare payments to Wisconsinites across the state. Unless the Trump Administration defies the court order and federal law or decides to request an emergency stay of the court’s decision, or a vendor processing issue occurs, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) anticipates benefits will be available to FoodShare members overnight.

The governor’s announcement comes on Day 37 of the ongoing federal government shutdown — now the longest federal government shutdown in American history.