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The Trump regime is continuing to argue in federal court that it should be allowed to take away food stamps from roughly 700,000 Americans on April 1, according to a new report from the Associated Press. The news comes as covid-19 has already sickened at least 9,415 Americans and killed 150, with many cities going into lockdown as the pandemic threatens to overwhelm health care systems across the country.

Federal Judge Beryl Howell halted the Trump regime’s cruel efforts to cut food stamps last week, citing the covid-19 pandemic, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) told the AP on Wednesday it will still fight the decision to allow hundreds of thousands of people to continue receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), often referred to as food stamps.