A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to immediately and fully fund SNAP food assistance benefits, after it refused to draw down contingency funds to pay for the program that helps one out of every eight people in the U.S. afford groceries. The administration promptly appealed the ruling. In response, Washington Senator Patty Murray wrote, “I have never seen an American president so desperate to force children and seniors to go hungry. … This is as ugly and cruel as it gets.”