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Halloween ended with the administration learning a familiar lesson: if you try to turn basic food assistance into bargaining chips, judges may not wait around for your talking points. The day’s biggest Trump-world failure was not just legal; it was moral, political, and easy for everyone to see.
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Two federal judges moved nearly at once to block the administration from cutting off November SNAP benefits during the shutdown, blowing up a plan that would have hit tens of millions of people. The White House tried to frame the problem as a legal gray area, but the ruling made the sharper point: the government had chosen to use food assistance as shutdown pressure, and the courts were not buying it.