A US federal judge for the District of Columbia Sunday struck down a Trump administration rule that would have ended food stamps for 700,000 Americans.
The court struck down the rule after finding it arbitrary and capricious for its failure to account for the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on food stamp recipient numbers. The 700,000 person estimate was based on figures from before the pandemic and never revised. Judge Beryl A. Howell, the judge who ruled on the case, wrote:
