This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, the political laws of gravity still exist.
When you have an unpopular president and people are dissatisfied with the economy,
that president's party loses.
Plus, the president's tariffs at the Supreme Court.
Catch up on political news you've missed or have just been sitting out on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's latest request to pause SNAP food aid payments,
leaving millions of Americans in limbo this weekend.
The temporary stay issued last night comes as the administration is appealing a court order requiring it to pay recipients full benefits for this month.
Here's NPR's Gigi Dubin reporting.
Snap recipients in several states from California to Wisconsin had just begun seeing money loaded up on their EBT cards to buy food.
Those states acted once a federal judge this week ordered the Trump administration to restore snap funds by Friday.
The same day it said it would comply,
the Trump administration appealed the ruling all the way up to the Supreme Court,
which kicked the case back to an appeals court.
In the meantime, many states still haven't distributed November SNAP benefits,
and it's unclear whether states that have will be reimbursed.
NPR news delays at the nation's airports expected to worsen this weekend because of the government shutdown travelers facing a second day of flight cuts ordered by the federal aviation administration starting with 4% of flights at high traffic airports and ramping up to 10% next week transportation secretary Sean Duffy warning of even bigger cuts ahead so
if this shutdown doesn't end relatively soon we're going to have to continue to assess the pressure in the airspace and make decisions that it may again move us from 10% to 15%,