Vice President Vance on Thursday pushed back on a federal court ruling that directed the Trump administration to make full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments for November, arguing the court should not be telling the president how to spend money during a government shutdown.

"It’s an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the middle of a Democrat government shutdown," Vance said during a roundtable with Central Asian leaders at the White House.

"What we’d like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government of course, then we can fund........

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