LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) – Governor Tony Evers says he will not take back November SNAP benefits that were paid out to 700,000 Wisconsinites late last week.
He made the comments during a visit to Wafer Food Pantry in La Crosse Tuesday.
Wisconsin is one of multiple states in a back-and-forth legal battle with the Trump administration over food assistance.
Tuesday marks two weeks since the first lawsuit was filed. Wisconsin is now part of two of them.
One to require the federal government to fully fund SNAP in November and another to stop states from being punished for paying out benefits this month.
“The judge said to the president, hey, by the way, this is wrong. You pay for the whole thing like they always do. The card should be 100% and that’s exactly what we did and the fact that they’re trying to claw that back, that’s embarrassing,” said Evers.
Last week, the governor signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency and a period of abnormal economic disruption in the state of Wisconsin due to the ongoing federal government shutdown and a lapse in FoodShare benefits.
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