Wisconsin and other states received the guidance late Saturday night after Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration led a coalition of states and governors earlier that same night in filing a new letter before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court to reject the Trump Administration’s last-ditch effort to yank SNAP payments from states across the country, including from nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who on Friday were paid their November payments after the program previously ran out of funding November 1. The letter urged the court to enforce a directive requiring the Trump Administration to ensure federal resources are available to pay November SNAP payments for Wisconsin and other states across the country, as required by a recent court order. More details and background are available here. 

After the letter was filed, states received correspondence from the Trump Administration suggesting states “must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.” A copy of the letter from the Trump Administration is available here. 

Gov. Evers and the Evers Administration today joined a coalition of states in requesting a Massachusetts court grant a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump Administration from enforcing the letter they sent to states on Saturday night. A copy of the filing is available here. 

Gov. Evers today released the following statement: 

“President Trump and the Trump Administration should be ashamed of the fact that they are trying to yank food out of the hands of nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites, including about 270,000 kids. What a horrible thing to do to people. It’s cruel, and it’s wrong. 

“We cannot and will not sit around and wait for the Trump Administration to come take food away from hungry kids, families, and seniors in this state, so we're going to court to try and stop them.”