“The Trump administration will comply with a court order by providing partial food assistance benefits, the White House said, an apparent walk-back of President Donald Trump’s threat to deny aid to low-income Americans until the government reopens,” Bloomberg reports.
White House Walks Back Trump’s Threat on Food Aid
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