The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block an order by a lower court to fund SNAP benefits for 42 million hungry Americans.

The high court decision allows a lower court time to consider a more lasting pause. The Trump administration is appealing an order to fully fund November food aid for millions of people.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday froze, for now, a lower court order that required the Trump administration to swiftly provide full SNAP benefits to roughly 42 million Americans.

President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday it would be “devastating for our country” if he lost a Supreme Court case that could invalidate his administration’s most far-reaching tariffs.

The Supreme Court’s questioning of the use of a 1977 emergency law to impose tariffs on scores of countries raised doubt about the centerpiece of the president’s economic agenda.

In one of the most significant legal cases for President Donald Trump's administration, the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared skeptical of the president’s claim of unbounded tariff authority -- though some of the justices signaled a potential willingness to give the president some flexibility on foreign trade.

The Supreme Court is expected to be sympathetic to the religious rights of a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved off by Louisiana prison guards.

U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared heavily skeptical of the government's arguments for using emergency powers to impose tariffs during oral arguments.

A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed skepticism about President Donald Trump claiming tariff power from a Carter-era law.

The Trump administration says it has plenty of other options to impose tariffs, if the court rules against the president.