A federal judge in Washington, D.C., moved Sunday to end the Trump administration’s changes to the federal food stamps program that would have likely ended the benefits for tens of thousands of Americans.
In a ruling reported by The Washington Post, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the Department of Agriculture had not adequately addressed how its decision to remove the ability of cities to waive work requirements for the program in economically-distressed areas would affect states around the country.
The administration’s rule ending that discretionary power “abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans,” wrote Howell, according to the Post.