Cartoon Carousel The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

 Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

By POLITICO STAFF 11/07/2025 05:00 AM EST

CARTOON CAROUSEL

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

By POLITICO Staff

 

CARTOON CAROUSEL

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

By POLITICO Staff

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Supreme Court temporarily blocks order on releasing SNAP benefits

The order pauses, for now, a lower court ruling directing the Trump administration to release November benefits in full on Friday.

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U.S. Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Full SNAP Funding Amid Record Government Shutdown 

 

 

Jackson lets Trump hold back full SNAP funding for now

The justice’s order came after the Trump administration raced to the Supreme Court ahead of a lower-court deadline to pay full SNAP benefits.

By Josh Gerstein and Marcia Brown

 

11/07/2025 09:52 PM EST

The Trump administration scored a temporary victory at the Supreme Court Friday as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed to lift a deadline for the federal government to fully fund SNAP payments that flow to millions of Americans.

In an order issued after 9 p.m. Friday, Jackson granted the Trump administration’s request for relief from a lower court order that would have required officials to tap into a separate nutrition account at USDA to deliver the usual SNAP payments for November.

 

• Jackson’s move came after the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals declined to grant the administration an immediate reprieve from the district court judge’s order.

However, Jackson, a Biden appointee, noted that the appeals court indicated it planned to release a further ruling “as quickly as possible” and she said lifting the deadline for now would “facilitate” the appeals court’s next action, which she said she expected “with dispatch.”

1. The administration’s emergency appeal was routed to Jackson because she is assigned to oversee urgent matters arising from the 1st Circuit.  
2. She will likely refer the issue to the full court at some juncture, but her order Friday gave no indication she has yet done so. 

> It’s not clear what the high court’s order means for states that have already moved to make full payments to recipients after USDA said it was working to comply with the lower court order.

 

The Supreme Court’s Friday night ruling is the latest in a legal back-and-forth this week. 

• States, cities and nonprofits first sued demanding officials dip into a contingency fund for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which the Trump administration maintained was reserved for emergencies like natural disasters. 
• After two separate court orders, officials agreed to use the fund to pay partial November benefits, a plan that state and federal officials said could take weeks in some places.

President Donald Trump added to the confusion this week when he posted on social media that SNAP benefits wouldn’t be paid until the government reopened.

1. While officials have never before used a SNAP contingency fund to keep the program afloat, in previous shutdowns the program has remained running as officials plan for emergencies.
2. In the absence of SNAP funding, nonprofits and some states have worked overtime to fill the void — but most say they can’t fully meet the need.

 

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